This was a really cool book! I love that it's actually true. In between the story of Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace is woven other tales of the Victorian Era. Charles Darwin features often in the second half of the book. Dickens is mentioned as well. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to kn...
Author Kate Summerscale seems to have done quite a bit of research for this book. Lots of famous and not so famous names seem to be coming out of the woodwork. She does give you an inside glimpse of Victorian medical practices and cures of the time (an boy they had some pretty strange ideas back the...
Women are so scary.The rise in the diagnosis of sexual mania in women corresponded to an intense contemporary anxiety about unsatisfied female desire. It had recently come to light that there was an excess of spinsters in Britain. According to the census of 1851, the country contained half a million...
sadly this was one of the few books I failed to finish this year. I think I had not read the reviews of it properly beforehand as I had expected it to be a fictionalised version of events rather than a historical account..it was just too dry for me.Early divorce cases are interesting though..I very ...
sadly this was one of the few books I failed to finish this year. I think I had not read the reviews of it properly beforehand as I had expected it to be a fictionalised version of events rather than a historical account..it was just too dry for me.Early divorce cases are interesting though..I very ...
Holy shit, this looks super interesting. Found it on NPR's Summer Reading List (where I bet the other six or eight of my GR friends also saw it). I could totally read this thing.
A nonfictional look at a notorious divorce case in 1850's Victorian England, where the main testimony came from the diary kept by the wife. Interesting look at hydrotherapy, spa life, privacy and morality. The author leaves the question of what Isabella Robinson did was right or wrong up to the lead...
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