Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women

Author/Contributor(s):	Rizzo, Betty
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	09/01/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The first detailed study of the companionate relationship among women in eighteenth-century England. Drawing extensively upon primary documents and fictional narratives, Rizzo describes the socioeconomic conditions that forced women to take on or to become companions and examines a number of actual companionate relationships.