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Kate Summerscale: Victorian divorce law rested on a double standard
www.bloomsburyanz.com On a mild winter’s evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a grand sandstone house lit … Continue reading
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Kate Summerscale: Victorian divorce law rested on a double standard
bloomsbury.com On a mild winter’s evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a grand sandstone house lit … Continue reading
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Tagged divorce, double standard, historical, history, mr whicher, suspicions of mr whicher, victorian, whicher
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