Victorian Trading Company:
PAPER HEARTS: VICTORIAN COURTSHIP CORRESPONDENCE.
Victorians engaged in long distance relationships—especially when both parties were present in the same room. The hustle and bustle of courtship etiquette was truly more hampering than a crinoline!
With such limitations, it comes as no surprise that couples resorted to delivering flirtations by postage stamps, fans, and flowers.
Thankfully, love letters preserved a myriad romances like Mark Twain’s. . .
Twain’s story ironically began with a photograph. When his friend Charles Langdon shared a portrait of his sister, Twain was smitten.
Their first date saw Olivia by his side in the audience of Charles Dickens’ reading.
After the outing, Twain’s own pen carried the courtship. In fact, the year 1868 brought Olivia many endearing missives. Including, “Livy Darling, I am grateful — grate-fuller than ever before — that you were born, & that your love is mine & our two lives woven & melded together! – SLC”
Not all courtship correspondence fared quite so well.
LOL, to which I say,
https://youtu.be/wKjfjO2Y1H4
The British influence in India and Nepal was obviously very strong and this is one of the “customs” Indians picked up. Books were filled with these things as a guide for the love struck young man. Funny reading, there are minorities in America that would do well showing respect for the tender gender rather than telling us how quickly they can “bust their ass”.
Ah bitch, I feel be gooder when yo ‘ho ass in my hangout.
Now you just send nude pics from your smart phone. Devolution in progress.