Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England. Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows? An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research: governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defenders of castles, courtesans, countesses, witches and widows.
| ISBN: | 9781842126356 |
| Publication date: | 12th November 2009 |
| Author: | Lady Antonia Fraser |
| Publisher: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 704 pages |
| Series: | Women in History |
| Genres: |
History |