Wideacre
By: Philippa Gregory
Series: Wideacre Trilogy
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 621
ISBN-13: 9780007230013
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction; Wideacre Hall (Imaginary place); Women
Description: `If it was the way of the world that girls left home, then the world would have to change. I would never change.' Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the eighteenth century she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others. Sexual and wilful, she believes that the only way to achieve control over Wideacre is through a series of horrible crimes, and no-one escapes the consequences of her need to possess the land.
Notes: Book 1

Originally published: Harmondsworth: Viking, 1987.