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Cargando... Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman (2010 original; edición 2010)por Chloë Schama
Información de la obraWild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman por Chloë Schama (2010)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Could have been so interesting but instead it reads like a high school paper—-full of quotes and book-name dropping. I lost interest fast. There is literally quoted information on every single page—-sometimes in every paragraph! ( ) This just didn't grab me although I found the idea of it interesting. I do appreciate what seemed to be like the author's interest in the main character and the research that had to be done. While the marriage laws may have changed for some, there are plenty of places where women are still left with all kinds of draconian rules that leave them powerless. Interesting story that needs a bit more fleshing out. I would have enjoying learning more about exactly HOW she lived her life - as in, the logistics of her moves, her travels, etc. She was always bopping around from one place to another, travelling the world, yet the author never talks about her money, how she paid for the travel, why she decided to move different places, how did she manage to get invitations to stay with certain people, how one goes about joining a religious order and becoming a nurse - without any experience, and without becoming a nun. Aside from the above point (which bothered me throughout the entire book), it was an interesting look at one of the earlier media darlings, and the start of a good look at the marriage laws at that time and place and the lack of women's rights in general. I just wish I came away from the book with more actual feeling for either of the protagonists that I read about. Theresa Yelverton was unique in her time; a well-traveled, educated and ultimately unmarried woman. When her husband marries another woman, Theresa challenges his actions in court. She was granted married status by Scotland, only to be declared officially unmarried by England. A well-researched discourse of Theresa's life, this book highlights the lonely challenges an unconventional woman faced during the Victorian Era. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
What started as a friendly conversation between a young girl, Theresa Longworth, and an army officer, William Charles Yelverton, on a steamer bound from France to England in 1852 would culminate nearly a decade later in one of the biggest public scandals the era had witnessed, with enormous implications for society at large. Seized upon by the Victorian press, the trials to legitimize Longworth's marriage to Yelverton before the law courts of Ireland, Scotland, and England brought to the fore several of the most disconcerting matters in the Victorian era: the inadequacies of female education, prejudice against single women, and problems with marriage law. When Theresa Yelverton emerged victorious from her legal battles, she was paraded through Dublin's streets like a queen. Her victory, though, was short-lived, as she learned that life as a single woman-even the life of a well-known writer and traveler, as she became-would always be hard. Theresa Yelverton became an unwitting harbinger of the turmoil of her era and evoked timeless fears and fascinations: the fantasy of romance, the grip of obsession, the plight of unrequited love, the fear of abandonment. Chloe Schama brilliantly recaptures an ordinary woman caught up in an extraordinary affair, catapulted into fame and notoriety, forcing her society to confront some of its most unsettling issues. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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