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How to Create the Perfect Wife - The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman (Paperback)
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How to Create the Perfect Wife - The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman (Paperback)
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Loot Price R307
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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 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
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.
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