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AN EMPHATICALLY FEMINIST HISTORY OF DATING
‘A new approach to romance… The heroines of Regency novels could teach today’s young women a trick or two’ Sunday Times
What if Mr Darcy had simply been able to swipe right?
‘This book was a real education for me. It’s like a Lonely Planet guidebook to dating.’
Gilo
‘Lessons to learn for committed singletons and happily married alike, and everyone in between.’
Anon
‘I loved it.’
Adele Taylor
‘I found it hard to put down.’
richie666
Dating has never been easy. The road to true love has always been rutted with heartbreak, but do we have it any easier today?
How did Victorians ‘come out’? How did love blossom in war-torn Europe? And why did 80s video-dating never take off?
Bursting with little-known facts and tantalizing tales of lovelorn men and besotted women, Nichi Hodgson’s intriguing history of amorous relationships, from enamoured Georgians to frenziedly swiping millennials (and everyone in between) may leave you grateful that you live – and love – today.
‘A new approach to romance… The heroines of Regency novels could teach today’s young women a trick or two’ Sunday Times
What if Mr Darcy had simply been able to swipe right?
‘This book was a real education for me. It’s like a Lonely Planet guidebook to dating.’
Gilo
‘Lessons to learn for committed singletons and happily married alike, and everyone in between.’
Anon
‘I loved it.’
Adele Taylor
‘I found it hard to put down.’
richie666
Dating has never been easy. The road to true love has always been rutted with heartbreak, but do we have it any easier today?
How did Victorians ‘come out’? How did love blossom in war-torn Europe? And why did 80s video-dating never take off?
Bursting with little-known facts and tantalizing tales of lovelorn men and besotted women, Nichi Hodgson’s intriguing history of amorous relationships, from enamoured Georgians to frenziedly swiping millennials (and everyone in between) may leave you grateful that you live – and love – today.
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Reviews
I loved it.
Nichi's writing is articulate, entertaining, informative and eye-opening.
A fascinating look at our attitudes to sex and relationships from the 1700s to the present day. Thoroughly recommended.
A new approach to romance . . . The heroines of Regency novels could teach today's young women a trick or two.
Nichi Hodgson takes you on a whistle-stop tour of dating through history
Hodgson covers a lot of ground in 234 pages - this is a pacey, intelligent and authoritative account with bags of wit.
Anyone who has negotiated the thrills of the chase for romance will smile with recognition and sigh in sympathy while reading this entertaining and well-researched history.