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There were certain places that were considered acceptable for meeting and seeing potential suitors. After church, picnics and parent's parlors were the most frequent places. Long relationships were seen as the most appropriate. It was a way for parents to ensure the potential husband would be able to support their daughter. Letter writing was also an important part of this process. Why was letter etiquette so important? -- Kellye Sorber | There were certain places that were considered acceptable for meeting and seeing potential suitors. After church, picnics and parent's parlors were the most frequent places. Long relationships were seen as the most appropriate. It was a way for parents to ensure the potential husband would be able to support their daughter. Letter writing was also an important part of this process. Why was letter etiquette so important? -- Kellye Sorber | ||
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| + | I thought the letter writing was very interesting as well. I thought that they were very interesting in the conventions they used to make their intentions known. From a modern perspective I find it baffling to follow such a strict guideline. I also spent last Friday skimming through letters, from later in the century mind, and I had a hard time realizing when the authors actually got married, they continued to write in much the same way. By turns it was incredibly stilted and others just as passionate. -Lacey | ||
I found it pretty clear through Stevenson's reading that the informal meeting between men and women of the lower classes was much more "meaningful" than the 'formal debuts' of the upper crust. Instead of the ballroom environment where women tried to impress the men of nobility status, the informal meeting between men and women after church, at Sunday socials and walks in the park characterize a much more liberating experience. Therefore the question that popped into my head was whether the meeting between men and women in the Southern lower classes between 1820-1840 took on much more meaningful life-long relationships than the courtship based on each other's class resume. --Joe Cirenza | I found it pretty clear through Stevenson's reading that the informal meeting between men and women of the lower classes was much more "meaningful" than the 'formal debuts' of the upper crust. Instead of the ballroom environment where women tried to impress the men of nobility status, the informal meeting between men and women after church, at Sunday socials and walks in the park characterize a much more liberating experience. Therefore the question that popped into my head was whether the meeting between men and women in the Southern lower classes between 1820-1840 took on much more meaningful life-long relationships than the courtship based on each other's class resume. --Joe Cirenza | ||
