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Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485–2000

Part of the Studies in Modern History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137327802

ISBN: 978-1-349-46021-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 29, 2015

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Introduction: Marriages of Aristocratic British Women and Stability of Rank Identity, 1485–2000

Schutte, Kimberly

Pages: 1 –10

[This study examines the marriage patterns of aristocratic British women in the period from 1485 to 2000, demonstrating that these patterns remained remarkably stable. The underlying assertion at work in this project is that the marriage patterns of noble women are a good suggestion of the...
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Prologue: Identity and Rank

Schutte, Kimberly

Pages: 11 –20

[As a group, for the British nobility much of the self- understanding of their identity came from their inclusion in the titular nobility. This identity was foundational to the existence of the women of this rank for most of the period under consideration here. Because of that, a great deal of...
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The Basic Marriage Patterns

Schutte, Kimberly

Pages: 25 –58

[This chapter sets out and interrogates the basic marriage patterns of British aristocratic women from 1485 to 2000. At its most fundamental it looks at the rates of endogamy, hypogamy, exogamy, and unmarriedness. The primary argument here is that the constancy in the rates of endogamous and...
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“British” Marriages

Schutte, Kimberly

Pages: 59 –68

[This project, in examining the marital patterns of the daughters of the British aristocracy, tends to treat the nobility of the different nations as a whole. However, for much of the period under consideration (and perhaps still today) they did not see themselves as a part of a monolithic...
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An Open Aristocracy?

Schutte, Kimberly

Pages: 69 –83

[The myth of the open elite has been an anecdotal truism about Britain for some time. Commentators and historians long accepted, almost without question, that the British nobility succeeded, in part, because of its relative openness to newcomers and the rapid assimilation of those newcomers into...
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The Marriage Market

Schutte, Kimberly

Pages: 87 –105

[The search for an appropriate husband often took place in what has been termed since the sixteenth century as the “marriage market”. Much of the maneuvering for a mate took place within very constrained circumstances, most often in the London Season. Young elite women used the balls and parties...
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Practical Considerations in Securing a Husband

Schutte, Kimberly

Pages: 106 –122

[The marriages of aristocratic British women were in many ways supremely non- romantic, often resembling business deals far more than loving lifelong unions. It was in the settling of the practical considerations surrounding these unions that women’s roles as cogs in the larger machines that were...
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Kinship Groups

Schutte, Kimberly

Pages: 123 –132

[An important aspect in understanding the emphasis on the maintenance of rank identity among the families of the British aristocracy is understanding the centrality of the kinship group, or extended family, in the creation of that identity. Noble women served as the link between their natal and...
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Elopement and Defiant Matches: Marrying Outside the Bounds of Propriety

Schutte, Kimberly

Pages: 133 –159

[Throughout the early modern and modern periods, British society assumed that aristocratic women would marry in such a way as to further the interests of their natal families and preserve aristocratic rank identity. Some women, however, did not conform to these societal strictures and chose to...
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Conclusion

Schutte, Kimberly

Pages: 160 –163

[On 29 July 1981, Diana Spencer, the barely 20-year-old youngest daughter of Earl Spencer, walked down the aisle of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London to marry Charles, Prince of Wales. Witnessing the beginning of this ill-fated fairy tale were Diana’s two elder sisters, Sarah1 and Jane.2 These...

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