How to Create the Perfect Wife

How to Create the Perfect Wife
Author: Wendy Moore
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465065732

A captivating tale of one man's mission to groom his ideal mate. Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal, yet tough and hardy, and completely subervient to his whims. But after being rejected by a number of spirited young women, Day concluded that the perfect partner he envisioned simply did not exist in frivolous, fashion-obsessed Georgian society. Rather than conceding defeat and giving up on his search for the woman of his dreams, however, Day set out to create her. So begins the extraordinary true story at the heart of How to Create the Perfect Wife. A few days after he turned twenty-one and inherited a large fortune, Day adopted two young orphans from the Founding Hospital and, guided by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the principles of the Enlightenment, attempted to teach them to be model wives. Day's peculiar experiment inevitably backfired -- though not before he had taken his theories about marriage, education, and femininity to shocking extremes. Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism -- and deep contradictions -- at the heart of the enlightenment.

Novel Gazing

Novel Gazing
Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1997-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780822320401

DIVThis is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. Eve Sedgwick has brought together contributors to navigate this new terrritory through discussions of a wide range of British, French, and American novels--including canonical/div

The History of Sandford and Merton

The History of Sandford and Merton
Author: Thomas Day
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2023-12-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368846396

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

DYING NEGRO

DYING NEGRO
Author: THOMAS. DAY
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9781033813065