“I can hardly explain what this book is like. When i first started reading it i thought that it would be impossible for a writer to attain such detailed acounts of somebodies life, especialy as the lived in the 18th centuary. As the book carried on and i got more and more draw in to it, I realised that the facts were true and that Mary Eleanor Bowes was a real person who was 'trapped in an appallingly brutal marriage'.
Compered even to today stories of brutal husbands it was a something i could not imagine happening. It sudenly dawned on me that it did happen then and it still happens now. My only reasurance is that women have equal rights. What i don't understand is that even with the law 'protecting' them, you still hear stories of husands keeping their wives prisonor, withought other people even knowing about it.
I haven't read many biographies before but this one opened my eyes to the world out there, not only the 21st centuary world with its cars, global warming and growing population but also the 18th centuary with its unjust laws, balls and aristicrats. What i think hasn't changed is the curious fact that the people who don't have much in terms of money give more to pople in need than the rich who have more then they know what to do with.
This book is an addictive tale of triumph (of a woman) over violence, humiliation, deception, kidnap and overwhelming betrayal. I loved it!”
Ania wrote this review Wednesday, February 17, 2010.
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