Wedlock - Wendy Moore • BookLikes (ISBN:0297853317)

Wedlock

by: Wendy Moore (author)

5.00 10

Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9780297853312 (0297853317)

Publish date: 2009

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Pages no: 386

Edition language: English

Category:

Non Fiction, Autobiography, Biography, History, Literature, European Literature, British Literature, Book Club, 18th Century

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This is a hard review to write because I was so emotionally involved in Mary Eleanor's plight. Like so many of her female contemporaries she spent her early years in luxury - protected, nurtured and formally educated. Unfortunately, it was exactly this kind of upbringing which would leave these girl...

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13 years ago

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Makes you realise how women were treated ,not allowed to own property ,it was controlled by father or husband.Even if you were a duchess divorce took almost an act of God even against such a sadistic brute as he.

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