Abstract
During the period, 1918 to 1960, engagement to marry was effectively a legally binding contract and a man who reneged on a promise of marriage could find himself in court for ‘breach of promise’. Men were to propose but had to ask permission from the woman’s father, or even an employer or superior officer, but there was a shift from codes of honour to love and romance. A woman was caught in a triangle between two men—her father and her future husband. Men, supposedly independent (especially from their mothers), were often constrained by others.
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