Love For Sale: Personal Ads From the 19th Century
It's not often a history dissertation warrants consideration outside a university, but Pam Epstein, a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, has turned hers into a blog worth blogging about. She's using old personal ads to explore love and marriage in mid-19th- to early-20th-century America, and has dug up some real gems — both the ads and the men. What I love is that instead having categories like "missed connections" or "casual encounters," they have "matrimony." Finding a mate was never so easy! Until, that is, you read their "desires."
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I loved reading this stuff. It gave me a laugh and made me wonder at how somethings never change.
1Do I sense a hint of an anti-academic bias? I know lots of History PhD dissertations that would be very interesting to read outside of the university
I'm not a History PhD student, but a lot of my friends are, and what they do is (often) very fascinating!!!
2What I'm trying to say is that this interesting topic may not be so a-typical after all
3Very interesting to study the change in the ideas of love, and how classified ads have changed over the years. I wish you could find person ads like this today... instead the people involved have changed.
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