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Defloration

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• Marriage customs and rites

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• Loss of virginity
• Virginity, Loss of

• The Virgin and the Gipsy (1930), by D. H. Lawrence (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• De Stolatae Virginitatis Jure Lucubratio Academica (in Latin; Leiden: Typ. J. Lindani, 1680), by Hadriaan Beverland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• On the Veiling of Virgins, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• From the Marriage License Window: An Analysis of the Characteristics of the Various Nationalities (Chicago: John Anderson and Co., 1887), by M. Salmonsen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Marriage Rites, Customs, and Ceremonies, of the Nations of the Universe (London: J. Smith, 1822), by Augusta Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage (London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by A. E. Crawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of Weddings: A Complete Manual of Good Form in All Matters Connected With the Marriage Ceremony (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by Mrs. Burton Kingsland (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Dunmow Flitch of Bacon Custom (with poems by the contributors; London: W. Tegg and Co., 1877), by William Andrews, contrib. by William Harrison Ainsworth, William Berry, John Joseph Briggs, Clara de Chatelain, Jean Baptiste François Ernest Chatelain, Mrs. G. M. Tweddell, and George Markham Tweddell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Love Customs in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Carmen Martín Gaite, trans. by Maria G. Tomsich (HTML at UC Press)

• Seven Wives and Seven Prisons: or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac: A True Story, by L. A. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• The Lynn Bride, 1920: 500 Ways to Please a Husband (Lynn, MA: Compliments of the leading merchants, 1920) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by John B. Freed (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Book of Weddings: A Complete Manual of Good Form in All Matters Connected With the Marriage Ceremony (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by Mrs. Burton Kingsland (page images at HathiTrust)