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Forster, Margaret : Good Wives? Mary, Fanny, Jennie and Me, 1845-2001

Chatto & Windus, London, 2001

8vo. Dust jacket and boards in very good condition, contents clean and tidy, previous owner's inscription to fep, author's signature to rep, a very neat and tidy copy.. Book Condition: Very Good Plus. Binding: Hard. Jacket: Very Good Plus

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FORSTER**, MARGARET: : Good Wives? Mary, Fanny, Jennie and Me,1845 - 2001

LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2001.

ISBN 0701169141.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around monochrome montage'd photographic illustrated dw/dj,with brown lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of dw/dj's spine/ backstrip with minimal bumping and reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges though aged/toned are bright and clean without any foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain burgundy endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-343pp [paginated] includes a prologue,Pts 1-3, Reflections and an epilogue,8pp contemporary b/w subjects' auto+ biographical photographs in 1 block, between pp152/3,notes and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and separate contents+illustrations lists/ tables. What is a 'good' wife? The bestselling author of 'Hidden Lives' explores four marriages,including her own,in different times and societies to find the answer. In 1845,in Africa,Mary Moffatt became the wife of the missionary David Livingstone in Africa - and her obedience and devotion eventually killed her.A hundred and fifteen years later,Margaret Forster married Hunter Davies in a Register Office,and interpreted the role very differently.Between those two marriages is a huge gulf in which women's lives and the notion of marriage changed immeasureably. Forster traces the shift in emphasis from submission to partnership,first through the marriage of the unconventional American,Fanny Osbourne,to Robert Louis Stevenson in the late 19th century; and then through that of the charismatic Jennie Lee to Aneurin Bevan in the 1930s. Jennie,a politician in her own right,was never submissive,rejected all notions of inferiority,and yet she found,as does the author,that aspects of being a wife remained as problematic as ever. Why does a woman still want to be a wife in the twenty-first century? What is the value of marriage today? Why do couples still marry in church? These are some of the questions Forster asks as she weaves the personal experience of forty years,and the experiences of her own mother and grandmother,through the three stories of three wives who have long fascinated her. She focuses on the kind of intimate and everyday detail which has intrigued and gripped readers of Forster's memoirs, biographies and fiction. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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