Good wives?
Subtitle: Mary, Fanny, Jennie & me, 1845-2001
By: Margaret Forster.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Forster, Margaret, 1938-; Livingstone, Mary, 1821-1862.; Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift, 1840-1914.; Lee, Jennie, 1904-; Wives -- England -- Biography.; Married women -- England -- Biography.; Wives -- England -- Family relationships.; Married women -- England -- Family relationships.; Authors' spouses -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Marriage -- England -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-333) and index.