Wideacre

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.

subjects: England, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Inheritance and succession -- Fiction,  Administration of estates -- Fiction,  Country homes -- Fiction,  Women -- Fiction,  Administration of estates,  Country homes,  Inheritance and succession,  Women,  Sussex (England) -- Fiction,  England -- Sussex,  Fiction, family life, general