How to Create the Perfect Wife

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How to Create the Perfect Wife

Editorial: w_n

ISBN: 978-07-5382-895-3

ISBN sin guiones: 9780753828953

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2014-03-27

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

How to Create the Perfect Wife

Editorial: w_n

ISBN: 978-02-9786-379-3

ISBN sin guiones: 9780297863793

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2013-02-07

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

How to Create the Perfect Wife

Editorial: w_n

ISBN: 978-14-0914-173-0

ISBN sin guiones: 9781409141730

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2013-02-07

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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How to Create the Perfect Wife

Wendy Moore

Primera publicación: 2013-02-07

From the No.1 bestselling author of WEDLOCK. The Georgian scandal of one gentleman, two orphans and an experiment to create the ideal wife. 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 fiancée. 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 Moore 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.