Biography & Autobiography
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Synopsis
Product DescriptionKate Summerscale, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, brilliantly recreates the Victorian world, chronicling in exquisite and compelling detail the life of Isabella Robinson, wherein the longings of a frustrated wife collide with a society clinging to rigid ideas about sanity, the boundaries of privacy, the institution of marriage, and female sexuality.
About the Author
KATE SUMMERSCALE is the former literary editor for the Daily Telegraph and author of The Queen of Whale Cay, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Summerscale lives in London.
Book Details
Published
August 1, 2012
Publisher
Tantor Media Inc
Format
Audio - Unabridged
ISBN
9781617070983