How to Create the Perfect Wife
Inbunden bok. Orion Publishing Group. 2013. 322 sidor.
Nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nyskick. Engelsk text.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780297863786
- Titel
- How to Create the Perfect Wife
- Författare
- Wendy Moore
- Förlag
- Orion Publishing Group
- Utgivningsår
- 2013
- Omfång
- 322 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Inbunden
- Mått
- 165 x 240 mm Ryggbredd 30 mm
- Vikt
- 599 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit or fortune.
Instead, he adopted two orphan girls from a Foundling Hospital, and set about educating them to become the meek, docile women he considered marriage material.
Unsurprisingly, Day's marriage plans did not run smoothly.
Having returned one orphan early on, his girl of choice, Sabrina Sidney, would also fall foul of the experiment. From then on, she led a difficult life, inhabiting a curious half-world - an ex-orphan, and not quite a ward; a governess, and not quite a fiancee.
But Sabrina also ended up figuring in the life of scientists and luminaries as disparate as Erasmus Darwin and Joseph Priestley, as well as that pioneering generation of women writers who included Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth and Anna Seward. In HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT WIFE, Wendy has found a story that echoes her concerns about women's historic powerlessness, and captures a moment when ideas of human development and childraising underwent radical change.
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9780297863786
