GOOD WIVES?

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.

subjects: Married women,  Wives,  Authors' spouses,  Marriage,  Family relationships,  Biography,  History,  Marriage, history,  Marriage, great britain,  Stevenson, fanny van de grift, 1840-1914,  Women, biography

People: Mary Livingstone (1821-1862),  Margaret Forster (1938-),  Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1840-1914),  Jennie Lee (1904-)

Places: England,  Great Britain