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The weaker vessel : woman's lot in seventeenth-century England
The weaker vessel woman's lot in seventeenthcentury England
Author: Antonia Fraser
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 rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widowed?An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780297783817
ISBN-10: 0297783815
Publication Date: 5/3/1984
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Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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