Dr Sally Holloway

I want to know what's been turned out my door. Well, I've studied one guy who he offers this woman sweets and she accepts them. But then the next day she puts her head down and walks past him on the other side of the street. Oh, it wasn't a successful offering.

I want to know what's been turned out my door. Well, I've studied one guy who he offers this woman sweets and she accepts them. But then the next day she puts her head down and walks past him on the other side of the street. Oh, it wasn't a successful offering.

Only once you're much further in. So you'd open with something quite cheap, like a ribbon. Oh. And then escalate towards the end, offering things like rings and jewellery.

Only once you're much further in. So you'd open with something quite cheap, like a ribbon. Oh. And then escalate towards the end, offering things like rings and jewellery.

Yes, that sort of thing. But building up to hopefully like emeralds, basically. The things that you selected varied massively according to social class. So if you were poorer, you might gift things that you could collect for free, like posies of flowers that you collect from a meadow, coins that you'd engraved by hand.

Yes, that sort of thing. But building up to hopefully like emeralds, basically. The things that you selected varied massively according to social class. So if you were poorer, you might gift things that you could collect for free, like posies of flowers that you collect from a meadow, coins that you'd engraved by hand.

You'd smooth it to a blank face and then engrave, you know, someone's initials on it.

You'd smooth it to a blank face and then engrave, you know, someone's initials on it.

That's really creepy, the coin. And then stay busks. You'd insert a stay busk down the front of your corset. They'd be engraved with things like hearts and flowers and initials.

That's really creepy, the coin. And then stay busks. You'd insert a stay busk down the front of your corset. They'd be engraved with things like hearts and flowers and initials.

And sometimes some of them have little secret compartments in the back that you could unscrew and put a lock of your hair, bringing the two bodies together, the body of the woman who wears it and the body of the man whose hair is in it.

And sometimes some of them have little secret compartments in the back that you could unscrew and put a lock of your hair, bringing the two bodies together, the body of the woman who wears it and the body of the man whose hair is in it.

People hold hands and, you know, women in their diaries talk about sneaking off to a back room for kisses with men.

People hold hands and, you know, women in their diaries talk about sneaking off to a back room for kisses with men.

Why is it crying diamonds? It's a woman's eye and it's about the purity of her love.

Why is it crying diamonds? It's a woman's eye and it's about the purity of her love.

Yeah, people kiss their love letters. They kiss their gifts. They kissed, you know, lips in pictures like this. It's all about creating that feeling of being together and creating an emotional bond at a distance, at a time when you couldn't just send someone a text.

Yeah, people kiss their love letters. They kiss their gifts. They kissed, you know, lips in pictures like this. It's all about creating that feeling of being together and creating an emotional bond at a distance, at a time when you couldn't just send someone a text.

Yeah. Once a couple embarked on a romantic correspondence, that was a sure sign that they were on the road to an engagement. You didn't just correspond with anybody in that vein. And some dads wouldn't let men correspond with their daughters until they had proven to them that they had the means to marry.

Yeah. Once a couple embarked on a romantic correspondence, that was a sure sign that they were on the road to an engagement. You didn't just correspond with anybody in that vein. And some dads wouldn't let men correspond with their daughters until they had proven to them that they had the means to marry.