Post by Carolyn on Nov 2, 2002 0:29:58 GMT -5
I have somehow managed to acquire two copies of the book "The Weaker Vessel" by Lady Antonia Fraser. It's a very, very readable, fascinating study of women in 17th century England, all classes. I'll bring it back to Sweden or even mail it right now, if somebody wants to pay the $5.00 it cost me. It's a high quality paperback, by the way
Part of the cover description reads:
"Here are young heiresses hunted like foxes for their land and fortunes or sold by their parents for political advantage, loving wives in happy unions, unheeding of the common belief that marriage for love was foolish. Multitudes of women proving themselves, during the Civil War, to be as courageous as men."
"Women of every class, circumstance and sensibility, despite the approved wisdom of the day that women were morally, spiritually and intellectually 'the weaker vessel.'
Fraser really knows how to write history, as anybody who has read her "Mary, Queen of Scots" or "Charles II" can attest.
Let me know if you're interested.
Part of the cover description reads:
"Here are young heiresses hunted like foxes for their land and fortunes or sold by their parents for political advantage, loving wives in happy unions, unheeding of the common belief that marriage for love was foolish. Multitudes of women proving themselves, during the Civil War, to be as courageous as men."
"Women of every class, circumstance and sensibility, despite the approved wisdom of the day that women were morally, spiritually and intellectually 'the weaker vessel.'
Fraser really knows how to write history, as anybody who has read her "Mary, Queen of Scots" or "Charles II" can attest.
Let me know if you're interested.
