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Mrs Robinson´s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Kate Summerscale
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Description for Mrs Robinson´s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
paperback. From the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JH; BJ; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was ‘fascinating’, she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man’s charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to shake... In one of the most notorious divorce cases of the nineteenth century, Isabella Robinson’s scandalous secrets were exposed to the world. Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife’s longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging ... Read more
When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was ‘fascinating’, she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man’s charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to shake... In one of the most notorious divorce cases of the nineteenth century, Isabella Robinson’s scandalous secrets were exposed to the world. Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife’s longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408831243
SKU
KTG0014534
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale ... Read more
Reviews for Mrs Robinson´s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Simply superb
Alexandra Harris
Guardian
Extraordinary
Phillipa Gregory
Daily Telegraph
Like her previous book, I was hooked after the first few pages. It's as good as non-fiction could possibly get
Victoria Hislop
Daily Mail
Grippingly suspenseful ... Mrs Robinson's Disgrace displays a scalpel-sharp investigative mind, and it vividly conveys the ... Read more
Alexandra Harris
Guardian
Extraordinary
Phillipa Gregory
Daily Telegraph
Like her previous book, I was hooked after the first few pages. It's as good as non-fiction could possibly get
Victoria Hislop
Daily Mail
Grippingly suspenseful ... Mrs Robinson's Disgrace displays a scalpel-sharp investigative mind, and it vividly conveys the ... Read more