1st Edition
Bundling Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America
By Henry Reed Stiles
Copyright 2006
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2006. In this famous survey of pre-martial courting customs in early America, Stiles traces the origin, progress and decline of bundling in America. He proves that bundling, a custom brought to American by the Puritans, was common at various times in many lands as far back as ancient Rome and that it arose out of real need rather than licentiousness. Controversial at the time, this book was banned in Boston when it was first published.
Dedication; Prefatory; Bundling; The British Isles; Wales; In Holland; Love and Courtship in the 14th Century; In Switzerland,; Savage Nations; United States of America,; The New England States,; Which being translated is as follows; A New Bundling Song;; A New Song in Favour of Courting; The Whore on the Snow Crust; A Poem Against Bundling; Appendix I; Bundling; Bundling; Appendix II; Index
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Henreed Stiles