Kate Walbert

This book, supposed to be a treatise in support of women, was a huge disappointment. Many professional reviews were excellent, but I agree with so many of the readers' comments who got very little out of the many generations of a family whose matriarch starved herself to death in honor of women and possibly gaining equality for them in England. Most members of the family were quite uninteresting and also cold as people. And after plodding through many details that were provded, but not adequately explained, this book just stopped. Walbert is not an author I will read again. I also did not care for the fact that so many men were at most 2-dimensional and their motives were not usually positive, regardless of what they did.… (más)