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Matriline versus Patriline: Social Mobility in England, 1754-2023
- 082349872349872 3y agoTheir result would be stronger if every english book I've read (from the Brontë sisters to the Mitford sisters) didn't have exactly one reason not to practise assortative mating: pour redorer son blason. (one Mitford novel has a character who "marries down" for exactly that reason, only in the book it turns out to be an advantage: her husband is innovative and —albeit with méthodes peu orthodoxes— gets things done, while the rest of her set has to content* themselves by aging alongside husbands who —as scions of the cream of society— are known mainly for being rich and thick) * see Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci's best known character for an 20th-century-romance-genre lampshade of this situation...