How to Create the Perfect Wife: Georgian Britain's most ineligble bachelor and his quest to cultivate the ideal woman by Wendy Moore

How to Create the Perfect Wife: Georgian Britain's most ineligble bachelor and his quest to cultivate the ideal woman

Wendy Moore

322 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history funny informative lighthearted slow-paced
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Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country maid yet tough and hardy like a Spartan heroine, she would live with him in an isolated cottage, c...

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