Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

by Kate Summerscale

Book Overview

I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman--bodily and morally the husband's slave--a very doubtful happiness. -Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter Vicky

Headstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry Robinson at age 31 in 1844. Her first husband had died suddenly, leaving his estate to a son from a previous marriage, so she inherited nothing. A successful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608199134
• ISBN13: 9781608199136
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A very accurate portrayal of the oppressed sexual state women were subjected to during the Victorian age in England.