Title: Good wives : Mary, Fanny, Jennie and me, 1848-2001 /
Authors: Forster, Margaret, 1938-
Publisher: Chatto & Windus,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Forster, Margaret,; Moffatt, Mary.; Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift,; Lee, Jennie,; Married women England Biography.; Married women England Family relationships.; Marriage England.
Abstract: Written with a mixture of memoir and dramatic stories, this text is an exploration into what it means to be a wife, particularly a "good wife", then and now, looked at through the lives and marriages of four extraordinary women in different eras.
Contents: Mary Livingstone 1821-62 -- Fanny Stevenson 1940-1914 -- Jennie Lee 1904-88.