The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England by Antonia Fraser

The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

Medieval Women Boxset

Antonia Fraser

678 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative medium-paced
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Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What r...

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