Study Data from University of Warwick Update Knowledge of Gender and History (Faithful Men and False Women: Love-suicide In Early Modern English Popular Print).

This article focuses on a study examining the representation of suicide committed for love in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English popular print, particularly in ballads and pamphlets. The research, conducted by scholars affiliated with Technische Universität Dresden and the University of Warwick and funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, highlights how such suicides were often portrayed romantically and sympathetically rather than condemned. It also explores gender dynamics, noting that young women were frequently blamed for male suicides based on early modern gender beliefs, and sheds light on the performance of masculinity and femininity in courtship. The study is peer-reviewed and published in the journal Gender & History. [Extracted from the article]