The cost of marriage and the matrimonial agency in late Victorian Britain.

The article discusses how advertisements placed in British Victorian periodicals specializing in promoting potential matrimonial prospects shed light on Great Britain's social history of its lower middle class. The popular culture street literature typically featured upwards of 500 advertisements by tradesmen and domestics searching for like-minded companions. The British matrimonial press was created during the mid-nineteenth century when newspapers ceased the practice of accepting personal advertisements.