Download or read book The Matrimonial Bureau written by Carolyn Wells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Matrimonial Bureau" revolves around the adventures of four whimsical young women who daydream about their Prince Charming. The ladies find themselves in a variety of amusing and intricate love triangles. Will they eventually find their Prince Charming?
Download or read book The Matrimonial Bureau written by Carolyn Wells and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Matrimonial Bureau written by Lutie Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Marriage Bureau for Rich People written by Farahad Zama and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bored with retirement, Mr. Ali sets up a desk, puts up a sign, and waits for customers for his new matchmaking business. Some clients are a mystery. Some are a challenge. Mr. Ali's assistant, Aruna, finds it a learning experience. But without a dowry, Aruna has no expectation of a match for herself. Then again, as people go about planning their lives, sometimes fate is making other arrangements.
Download or read book The Marriage Bureau written by Penrose Halson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II—a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by. In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London’s Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau’s extensive archives, Penrose Halson—who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau—tells their story, and those of their clients. From shop girls to debutantes; widowers to war veterans, clients came in search of security, social acceptance, or simply love. And thanks to the meticulous organization and astute intuition of the Bureau’s matchmakers, most found what they were looking for. Penrose Halson draws from newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, and interviews with the proprietors themselves to bring the romance and heartbreak of matchmaking during wartime to vivid, often hilarious, life in this unforgettable story of a most unusual business. “A book full of charm and hilarity.”—Country Life
Download or read book Marriage Bureau written by Mary Oliver and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when internet dating is booming across all ages and classes and women are setting the agenda as never before, some things have not changed: You can’t always leave love to chance. And whether the search begins with an app in the 21st century or a visit to two young but savvy matchmakers in the 1940s, the desire for lifelong happiness with a perfectly suited partner remains the same. This is the remarkable true story of the Marriage Bureau; its successes, its rare failures and its many clients, told with wit and honesty in Mary and Heather’s own words.
Download or read book Conjugal Misconduct written by William Kuby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjugal Misconduct reveals the hidden history of controversial and legally contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. William Kuby examines the experiences of couples in unconventional unions and the legal and cultural backlash generated by a wide array of 'alternative' marriages. These include marriages established through personal advertisements and matchmaking bureaus, marriages that defied state eugenic regulations, hasty marriages between divorced persons, provisional and temporary unions referred to as 'trial marriages', racial intermarriages, and a host of other unions that challenged sexual and marital norms. In illuminating the tensions between those who set marriage policies and those who defied them, Kuby offers a fresh account of marriage's contested history, arguing that although marital nonconformists composed only a small minority of the population, their atypical arrangements nonetheless shifted popular understandings of marriage and consistently refashioned the legal parameters of the institution.
Download or read book The Mating Trade written by Robert Mullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are marriages made in heaven? In reality many people need a little help in the arrangement of such matters, whether from Jewish shadkhans (matchmakers), go-betweens, computer or video-dating agencies, marriage bureaux, Asian arranged marriages, gay dating agencies or personal ads. Originally published in 1984, the author’s clear-sighted look at the mating trade takes some of the mystique away from the subject and is the first serious and detailed account of the ‘third party’ in marriage. Dr Mullan looks at the ‘singles scene’ and the ‘arranged marriage’ historically and cross-culturally, and makes it clear that there is nothing necessarily odd or deviant about the mating trade. It is a business like any other, and as long as people continue to want ‘perfect partners’, marriage, permanent relationships, dates and sex, and while evolving social structures make such demands ever more difficult to meet, the business will thrive. It could even expand and grow, but the author believes that first it will have to clean up its act!
Download or read book Editor Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Getting Married in Korea written by Laurel Kendall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issues--identity, romantic love, women's work, marriage negotiations, and wedding ceremonies--Laurel Kendall gives us a new appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice to the astounding changes of the past century. Kendall attended her first Korean wedding in 1970, soon after she arrived in the country with the Peace Corps. Years later, as a seasoned anthropologist, she began interviewing both working-class and middle-class couples, matchmakers, purveyors of dowry goods, and proprietors of wedding halls. She consulted etiquette handbooks and women's magazines and analyzed cartoons, photographs, and weddings themselves. The result is an engaging account of how marriage matches are made, how families proceed through the rites, how they finance ceremonies and elaborate exchanges of ritual goods, and how these practices are integral to the construction of adult identities and notions of ideal women and men. The book is also a reflection on what it means to write "Korea" in a complex and ever changing social milieu.
Download or read book Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World written by Clifton R. Wooldridge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World" is a fictional book that focuses on the concern of the author, Clifton R. Wooldridge regarding the act of swindling now popular within the modern population. The author is popularly referred to as the real-life Sherlock Holmes for his exceptional role as an officer of the law. With the experience of Detective Wooldridge, he gives a clear description of various forms of crimes committed by swindlers in the city of Chicago.
Download or read book Darkest India written by Frederick St. George De Lautour Booth-Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Marriage Revolt written by William English Carson and published by New York : Hearst's International Library. This book was released on 1915 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Classified written by H G Cocks and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lonely Young Officer, up to his neck in Flanders mud, would like to correspond with young lady (age 18-20), cheery and good looking.' 1916 'Discreet, attractive couple 21 and 25 wish to meet couples and singles 21-35 for exciting and fun-loving adult relationships. Open-minded but not way out. No prejudices. Full length photo, address, and detailed letter assures same.' 1969 From the 'sporty' girls and 'artistic' boys of the Edwardian era to the 'lonely' soldiers of the Great War, the marriage bureaux of the fifties, and on to the internet dating sites of today, Classified tells the story of those who used personal ads to search for love, friendship, marriage and adventure.
