Title: The butcher's hook
Description: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
Subjects: Butchers, Man-woman relationships, Arranged marriage, Fiction, Social conditions, Women, Daughters, History, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: England, London, London (England)
Time periods: 18th century