FROM BRITAIN?S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER 'Extraordinary' PHILIPPA GREGORY, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Grippingly suspenseful' SUNDAY TIMES When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was ?fascinating?, she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man?s charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to shake. . . In one of the most notorious divorce cases of the nineteenth century, Isabella Robinson?s scandalous secrets were exposed to the world. Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife?s longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality. ?I?m all admiration: she has turned a sepia photograph, curling and tattered, into a film that...
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