Various Authors
Victorian Courtship Stories
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- Title in Estonian
- Viktoriaanlikud kurameerimislood
- First published
- 1890
- Languages
- Estonian and English
- Pages
- about 216
- Edition
- unabridged
Book summary
A collection of five English short stories published between 1861 and 1903, by W. S. Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Hubert Crackanthorpe, George Egerton and Israel Zangwill, all devoted to courtship. In Venice, an Englishman sees his young neighbour only through her reflection in the canal. In a Devon village, Patience, the parson’s outspoken daughter, sees a wealthy captain arrive from London. The other stories follow a sheep farmer, a rich and very shy fisherman, and a young poet, each drawn to a woman. Five views of love and marriage in the age of Queen Victoria.
