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Arranged marriage

Here are entered works on marriage arranged by an intermediary and consented to by both parties to the marriage. Works on marriage in which at least one party does not consent to the marriage and some element of duress is involved are entered under Forced marriage.

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• Arranged marriage -- England
• Arranged marriage -- Fiction

• Dunallan: or, Know What You Judge (3 volumes; Edinburgh: W. Oliphant; London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1825), by Grace Kennedy
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Green Ray (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883), by Jules Verne, trans. by Mary de Hauteville (page images at Google; US access only)
• A Modern Mephistopheles; and A Whisper in the Dark (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Louisa May Alcott (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

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

• The Northern Heiress: or, The Humours of York: A Comedy, As it was Acted at the New-Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, and J. Browne and W. Mears, 1716), by Mary Davys (multiple formats at Google)

• Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage (c2014), by Renata Grossi (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
• A New Map for Relationships: Creating True Love at Home and Peace on the Planet (New Map Publishing, c2016), by Dorothie Hellman and Martin Hellman (PDF at Stanford)
• Marriage and the American Ideal (1960), by Floyd Mansfield Martinson (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
• The Man for Her (c1957), by Leo J. Kinsella (HTML at EWTN)
• The Wife Desired (Techny, IL: Divine Word Publications, c1954), by Leo J. Kinsella (HTML at EWTN)
• When You Marry (revised edition; New York: Association Press, c1953), by Evelyn Millis Duvall and Reuben Hill, contrib. by Sylvanus Milne Duvall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues (2010), ed. by Wen-Shan Yang and Melody Chia-Wen Lu (page images at Google)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes (study guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes: A Handbook for Administrators and Teachers Who Use the Accompanying Study Guide (teacher's guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Pick a Mate: The Guide to a Happy Marriage (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1946), by Clifford R. Adams and Vance Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Can War Marriages Be Made to Work? (1944), by Clifford Kirkpatrick (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• Predicting Success or Failure in Marriage (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1939), by E. W. Burgess and Leonard S. Cottrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morals and Marriage: The Catholic Background to Sex (1936), by Thomas Gilby (HTML at EWTN)
• What is Right With Marriage: An Outline of Domestic Theory (New York: D. Appleton, 1929), by Robert C. Binkley and Frances Williams Binkley (multiple formats with commentary at wallandbinkley.com)
• Happiness and Marriage (1904), by Elizabeth Towne (Gutenberg text)
• How to be Happy Though Married: Being a Handbook to Marriage (seventh and popular edition; London: T. F. Unwin, 1887), by E. J. Hardy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Intimate Marriage, by Howard Clinebell and Charlotte H. Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Marriage in Free Society (1894), by Edward Carpenter (Gutenberg text)
• Marriage in Free Society (Manchester, UK: Labour Press Society, 1894), by Edward Carpenter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marriage Is For Love, by Richard L. Strauss (HTML at bible.org)
• The Modern Marriage Market, by Marie Corelli, Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie Jeune, Flora Annie Webster Steel, and Susan Malmesbury (HTML at Indiana)
• Observations of a Bachelor (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• One Woman's Experience of Emancipation (published in or after 1898), by Caroline Fairfield Corbin (page images at HathiTrust)
• One Woman's Experience of Emancipation (fourth edition, ca. 1904), by Caroline Fairfield Corbin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Perfect Matrimony (English translation), by Samael Aun Weor (HTML with commentary at glorian.org)
• The Physiology of Marriage, by Honoré de Balzac (Gutenberg text)
• Search Lights on Health, Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice to Maiden, Wife and Mother, Love, Courtship and Marriage (Toronto: J.L. Nichols, ca. 1894), by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasion'd by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Considered (first edition; London: Printed for J. Nutt, 1700), by Mary Astell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage; With Additions (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Parker, 1730), by Mary Astell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage, by Hugh Davey Evans (page images at MOA)
• Tried as by Fire: or, The True and the False, Socially (New York: Woodhull and Claflin, 1874), by Victoria C. Woodhull (page images at sc.edu)
• Über die Ehe (fourth edition, in German; Berlin: Voss, 1793), by Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (multiple formats at Google)
• The History and Philosophy of Marriage: or, Polygamy and Monogamy Compared (Boston: James Campbell, 1869), by E. N. Jencks (HTML with commentary at truthbearer.org)
• Know Thyself: or, Nature's Secrets Revealed (Marietta, OH: The S. A. Mullikin Co., 1911), by Samuel Fallows and W. J. Truitt (multiple formats at Google)
• Nuptiae Sacrae, Or, An Inquiry Into the Scriptual Doctrine of Marriage and Divorce: Addressed to the Two Houses of Parliament (London: John Murray, 1821), by John Ireland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Things (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Harmonics of Evolution: The Philosophy of Individual Life, Based Upon Natural Science, as Taught by Modern Masters of the Law (first volume of Harmonic Series, 10th edition; Chicago: Indo-American book company, 1910), by Florence Huntley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Essays of Love and Virtue (from a 1937 compilation), by Havelock Ellis (HTML at Virginia)
• The Family Monitor and Domestic Guide (uniform American edition of The Women of England, The Daughters of England, The Wives of England, and The Mothers of England; New York: E. Walker, ca. 1844), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Say It With Oil: A Few Remarks About Wives; Say It With Bricks: A Few Remarks About Husbands (a double volume, with the two works on opposite sides; New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Ring Lardner and Nina Wilcox Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nullity of Marriage (1959 edition), by F. J. Sheed (HTML at EWTN)

• Living in Love: Secrets From Bible Marriages, by Richard L. Strauss (HTML at bible.org)
• What God Hath Joined Together, by Harold Camping (PDF at refutecamping.com)
• What the Bible Says about Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage, by John Coblentz (HTML with commentary at anabaptists.org)

• Best Friends and Marriage: Exchange Among Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stacey J. Oliker (HTML at UC Press)

• The History of Divorce and Re-Marriage, for English Churchmen (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910), by H. J. Wilkins (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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.