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Bibliography

Austen, Jane (2013). ORGUEIL ET PRÉJUGÉS. Bibebook. ISBN 9782824707914.

• We used this source as an example of how matchmaking is used as a plot device in literature, and chose it to be the representative text for 18th century literature which utilizes matchmaking as a plot device because of its wide popularity.

“Matchmaking.” Matchmaking Noun - Definition, Pictures, Pronunciation and Usage Notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com, Oxford Learner's Dictionary, www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/matchmaking?q=matchmaking.

• The definition previously provided in the lead was not nearly as descriptive as we thought it should be, nor did it have a citation. After doing research to find which English dictionary would be the best (I searched for which ones are used/provided at the college level most often and through the world), I found that the Oxford English Dictionary was the most authoritative of the English dictionaries and used the learner's dictionary to find the definition of matchmaking.

NIGAL, GEDALYAH, and EDWARD LEVIN. The Hasidic Tale. Liverpool University Press, 2008. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1rmh1k. Accessed 20 Apr. 2020.

• In this chapter of his book The Hasidic Tale, Gedalyah Nigal, a hasidic scholar and professor at Bar-Ilan University (a public research university in Israel and the second-largest academic institution in Israel) provides insight into the different components of traditional Jewish (specifically Hasidic Jewish) matchmaking.

Shakespeare, William (2016). ROMEO ET JULIETTE. Flammarion. ISBN 2081386275.

• The same could be said of this text as was said for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice earlier in an earlier entry for this annotated bibliography. It is a well known and widely popular text, which makes it the ideal example of a 16th century literary work that, to some extent, utilizes matchmaking (or certain elements of matchmaking) as a plot device.

Wollburg, Clara. “The History of Matchmaking and the Function of Intermediaries in the Marriage Market.” Talenteck. 2016. PDF

• In this article, Clara Wollburg of the University of Oxford and the University of Bayreuth (both of which are international universities), has provided extremely helpful information about the history of matchmaking practices and the functions that the marriages which resulted from successful matches were meant to serve.