Watch the painting: Then read the text.
Historically. Until recently, the only way a woman could survive and sustain herself was through marriage. The concept of having a job, owning a property, having legal rights is a very recent concept. Unmarried ladies stayed with their parents and considered themselves a "burden", some were going to live with relatives who could afford to feed and hold them and others were forced to confinement in convents. Marriage for love was a topic of fiction and poetry, but it was not a reality until the industrial revolution, when women could work and keep, so that they could finally be free to choose their husband.
However, middle and upper class women did not have that right to marry for love until the th century.
The unequal wedding
Vasily Pukirev-1 8 6 2
Grateful thanks to Ms Norma Lupita Bajlaoui, English Literature & Facebook.
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