The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Bueno by Donna J. Guy, Jeffrey M. Shumway, Mary Karasch

The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Bueno

Donna J. Guy, Jeffrey M. Shumway, Mary Karasch

200 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1840 Gumerscindo Arroyo hoped to marry Francisca Canicoba, but her father forbade it. Consequently, Francisca took her father to court for permission to marry, where he objected on the grounds that Arroyo was simply too ugly. In the courtrooms ...

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