Invertebrates

Richard C. Brusca

Wendy Moore

Gonzalo Giribet

Oxford University Press Academic US

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, A good, near very good, clean and sound copy in black cloth boards, gilt title on spine with a good dust jacket. viii, 373 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.. Mary Eleanor Bowes became one of Britain's richest heiresses at the age of eleven. Pregnant with her lover's child and with her first husband dead, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney, who had defended her honour in a duel with the Revd Henry Bate, the 'Fighting Parson'. Mary was bowled over and married Andrew Stoney within the week, having been told that his death was imminent. But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney survived, he was broke and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Even the famous duel was a fake. Once married to Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment, seizing her lands, beating her, terrorising servants, introducing prostitutes to the family home and 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. Biographies and Autobiographies.. Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-359) and index.. .

History

World

How to Create the Perfect Wife

Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country maid yet tough and hardy like a Spartan heroine, she would live with him in an isolated cottage, completely subservient to his whims. But after being rejected by a number of spirited young women, Day concluded that the perfect partner he envisioned simply did not exist in frivolous, fashion-obsessed Georgian society. Rather than conceding defeat and giving up his search for the woman of his dreams, however, Day set out to create her. So begins the extraordinary true story at the heart of "How to Create the Perfect Wife," prize-winning historian Wendy Moore s captivating tale of one man s mission to groom his ideal mate. A few days after he turned twenty-one and inherited a large fortune, Day adopted two young orphans from the Foundling Hospital and, guided by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the principles of the Enlightenment, attempted to teach them to be model wives. After six months he discarded one girl, calling her invincibly stupid, and focused his efforts on his remaining charge. He subjected her to a number of cruel trialsincluding dropping hot wax on her arms and firing pistols at her skirtsto test her resolve but the young woman, perhaps unsurprisingly, eventually rebelled against her domestic slavery. Day had hoped eventually to marry her, but his peculiar experiment inevitably backfiredthough not before he had taken his theories about marriage, education, and femininity to shocking extremes. Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, "How to Create the Perfect Wife" is an engrossing tale of the radicalismand deep contradictionsat the heart of the Enlightenment. "

Europe

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

Phoenix

Briefly describes the history and geography of Malaysia, identifies points of interest, and offers advice on shopping, dining, entertainment, and travel

Malaysia: Land of Spice and Tropical Splendor (Asian Guides Series)

Asia

NTC Pub. Group

Into The Void. With Ace Frehley

Pitbull Publishing

Moore Recipes to Love

David, Moore

Self-published

The remarkable story of one woman's triumph over years of appalling violence and abuse' DAILY EXPRESS. Wedlock will be featured as one of the best reads in the new TV Book Club viewing on Channel 4 in March.

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The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by way of pain relief was a large swig of brandy. Onto this scene came John Elliotson, the dazzling new hope of the medical world. Charismatic and ambitious, Elliotson was determined to transform medicine from a hodge-podge of archaic remedies into a practice informed by the latest science. In this aim he was backed by Thomas Wakley, founder of the new magazine, the Lancet , and a campaigner against corruption and malpractice. Then, in the summer of 1837, a French visitor - the self-styled Baron Jules Denis Dupotet - arrived in London to promote an exotic new idea: mesmerism. The mesmerism mania would take the nation by storm but would ultimately split the two friends, and the medical world, asunder - throwing into focus fundamental questions about the fine line between medicine and quackery, between science and superstition.

The Mesmerist

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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