Dear all, A query has been passed on to my living history group from an amateur writer in the North of England. He has been given an assignment of writing a story about a 17th century Dutch girl who makes a "glove marriage" with a man in the Dutch East Indies, i.e. a proxy marriage in which the proxy carried a glove embroidered by the bride, the pair of gloves being reunited when the bride eventually joined her husband. He can't find any information about this custom except in one or two 20th century novels. What do folks think? Is it a novelists' invention? Surely by the time the glove had been made and sent on ahead by sea, the girl might as well have been travelling herself? Kate Bunting Librarian and 17th century reenactor
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