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Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match | 
 enlarge | Author: Wendy Moore
Publisher: Phoenix
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Sales Rank: 1322
Media: Paperback
Pages: 520
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0753828251
EAN: 9780753828250
ASIN: 0753828251
Publication Date: December 26, 2009
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'The remarkable story of one woman's triumph over years of appalling violence and abuse' DAILY EXPRESS
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 A good read July 10, 2010
J. E. Sheridan (UK)
A factual and amazing account of Georgian Aristocracy one for feminists and anyone interested in the reality of Georgian marriges. If it were fiction you would think it over the top - but it is true
 Page turning historical biography that really comes to life July 4, 2010
Mrs. C. Spencer (UK)
I really liked this book. It flows well, like a novel, but is interspersed with relevant historical detail (for example, the rumbling dinosaur of the Georgian legal system) and contemporary accounts from letters from the time which have survived.
The protagonist, Mary Eleanor Bowes (an ancestor of the Queen Mum, no less) is wonderfully portrayed and in an ultimately positive light given that previous publications about her have been less than complimentary. The book details the complicated and Draconian Georgian attitudes towards women, their rights and property and these descriptions don't half exasperate you - men were allowed to beat their wives to keep them to their duties! As for Mary's husband, well, reading what he did to her and several others is, even in today's society, utterly horrific to say the least. The good news is as you read, you can feel the net closing around him....and the heart-stopping chapter in which Mary is kidnapped had me literally sitting on the edge of my seat.
The book has a whole multitude of references and bibliography in the back and the author has obviously researched the story in great detail. Don't expect a nice bodice-ripping yarn or a feministic preach though - this book is neither. What it is, is a well thought out, well written and utterly heart-rending saga which could easily be made into a movie (If you liked Keira Knightley's "The Countess", you'll like this).
Thus, the story of a precocious heiress who almost loses everything, including her own life, makes excellent reading.
The truly brilliant thing about this book, though, is that it is not a work of fiction - this is a biography of one of the era's most prominent women, who found inner strength from somewhere against all odds.
Bear with it June 10, 2010
Jo39 (london)
starts off interesting then I lost the plot a bit but as too many charactors mentioned, please bear with it as 2 thirds in you finally get to the good bits and it seems much easier to read.
a fabulous account of this terrible tale May 29, 2010
Reader, I Read It (London)
If you are looking for something different read away from trashy novels and soppy romances then this is the book for you. Wedlock is the true story of the girl who had everything, wealth, looks, personality and a family who doted on her. After an unsuccessful first marriage Mary Eleanor Bowes fell into the trap of a dashing young solider called Andrew Robinson Stony who married her for her fortune and was determined to make her life more than a misery.
Moore's account of this interesting and disturbing relationship draws on eye witness accounts, court details and personal letters providing you with a book that reads more like a sensation novel than reality but is ultimately an intriguing insight into the social history of the Georgian Era.
The book takes your breath away in astonishment at how Stony could be so cunning and cruel and in a time when women's rights were unheard of you realise the enormity of what Eleanor endured and in the end, achieved.
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