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The Toast: Women Rejecting Marriage Proposals

HT to Noah for sending this my way!  Feel free to post Victorian memes as you encounter them!

Women Rejecting Marriage Proposals In Western Art History

Posted on September 19, 2016October 13, 2016Author ProfKershCategories 360: Victorian Sexualities, Fall 2016

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