How to create the perfect wife
by Moore, Wendy 1952-.
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BookPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2013ISBN: 9780297863786; 9780297863793; 9780297863793; 0297863797; 0297863789.Classification number: 941.0709 MOOSubject(s): Day 1748-1789 | Women -- History -- 18th century | Aristocracy (Social class) -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820 | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th centurySubject: This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit or fortune. Instead, he adopted two orphan girls from a Foundling Hospital, and set about educating them to become the meek, docile women he considered marriage material.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 941.0709 MOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002823909X |
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| 941.067 VAL The glorious revolution: 1688, Britain's fight for liberty | 941.068 ACK The history of England. | 941.07 CUR Kings of Georgian Britain / | 941.0709 MOO How to create the perfect wife | 941.072 PEA Pitt the elder: man of war | 941.072 ROY Culloden : Scotland's last battle and the forging of the British Empire / | 941.073 MAR Remaking the British Atlantic: the United States and the British Empire after American Independence |
Includes bibliographical references and index
This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit or fortune. Instead, he adopted two orphan girls from a Foundling Hospital, and set about educating them to become the meek, docile women he considered marriage material.
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