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Título: Wedlock
Condición: Nuevo
Subtítulos: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match
Formato: Tapa blanda
ISBN-10: 0753828251
EAN: 9780753828250
ISBN: 9780753828250
Género: History
Tema: Biography
Fecha de publicación: 26/12/2009
Idioma: inglés
País/Región de fabricación: GB
Altura del artículo: 198mm
Peso: 382g
Longitud del artículo: 132mm
Ancho del artículo: 46mm
Autor: Wendy Moore
Description:

WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's child, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week.

But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney was broke, and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Once married to Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment, seizing her lands, beating her, terrorising servants, introducing prostitutes to the family home, kidnapping his own sister. But finally after many years, a servant helped Mary to escape. She began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day and was successful. But then Andrew kidnapped her and undertook a week-long rampage of terror and cruelty until the law finally caught up with him.

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