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- Marry in haste ...
- October 2018
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Marry in haste ...
Very interesting true story. The main character was an ancestor of the current English royal family. The wife may have made some stupid decisions, but she didn't deserve the beastly 2nd husband she got. And your husband got all your money, which was a lot in her case. Her 1st husband died young, after they'd had 5 children in just a few years.
October 2018
A cautionary tale to look before you leap! Makes you glad you didn't live in those times, at least for women.
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One person found this helpful. We heard about this book while on a tour of Glamis castle two years ago. This is a remarkable true story of a woman who broke free from a monster of a husband and was not only finally ALLOWED to divorce him remember this is years ago Great story, I have shared this book with several friends.
Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Well I downloaded this by mistake, but thought I'll read the first few pages.
Wedlock: How Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match
Mary was perhaps too heady with freedom at that point to realise how transitory it would prove. She had inherited one of the biggest fortunes in Europe from her coal-magnate father and had selected the ninth Earl of Strathmore from the pack of land-rich, cash-poor aristocrats who shamelessly pursued her.
His early death in released her from a frustrating marriage that crushed her literary and scientific ambitions. Now Mary was living in a whirl of pleasure - organising parties to the theatre, commissioning a botanical expedition to the Cape, and thrilling to the touch of electric eels and newly acquired lovers alike - all in the public eye.
Her second husband's relentless physical and mental cruelty left Mary a changed woman.
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Beating her behind closed doors, he controlled her obsessively in public: Convulsive sideways movements of her lower jaw mirrored Mary's mental anguish. She was half-deaf from blows, and could barely speak. Redemption came in the figure of a female servant.
Wedlock: How Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match - Fairfax House
Stoney's staff usually ended up his spies, pimps or concubines, but Mary Morgan was different. After seeking legal advice, she recruited a small band of colleagues prepared to help their mistress escape. The support the countess received from retainers, tenants and colliers is stirring - many suffered in the fall-out from the failed marriage. Her loyal gardener tended her beloved plants and hothouses to the bitter end, secretly sending her the occasional consolatory pineapple.
Moore makes much of the irony that a statue of Lady Liberty presided over Mary's luxurious childhood home in County Durham. Riches, beauty, wit, and an excellent education bought Mary Eleanor Bowes anything but liberty. As Moore shows, nothing could save her from the fate of legal nonentity that she shared with every other married woman of her time.
Stoney was broke, and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy.
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Once married to Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment, seizing her lands, beating her, terrorising servants, introducing prostitutes to the family home, kidnapping his own sister. But finally after many years, a servant helped Mary to escape. She began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day and was successful. But then Andrew kidnapped her and undertook a week-long rampage of terror and cruelty until the law finally caught up with him.
Picked this book to take on holiday after seeing the review on TV Book Club. Initially I was put off as the cover makes it look like a 'bodice ripper' fiction book not something i would go anywhere Falls under the "truth is stranger than fiction" genre.