Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 504
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ISBN-10 : 1852852712
ISBN-13 : 9781852852719
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Book Synopsis Wives and Daughters by : Joanna Martin

Download or read book Wives and Daughters written by Joanna Martin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the stories, journals and personal letters of the women of the powerful Fox family, Wives and Daughters is a window into the daily lives and experiences of women of eighteenth-century aristocratic society and the country houses that symbolized the power and taste of eighteenth-century Britain. Combining personality with historical setting and detail, Joanna Martin traces the lives of fifteen individual women in their four country houses through several generations, in society and at home. Taking an intimate and personal look at courtship, marriage, childbirth, education, houses and gardens, reading, hobbies, travel and health, this book is an engrossing account of woman's lives in this fascinating time.


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