In your moment of crudeness for the day, where the fuck do you find so much time to read each month? I'm lucky if I finish two or three books in that time.
ohhh, you have free time! I'd forgotten what that was, but I did make myself spend a few hours reading tonight. I finished The Remains of the Day and started on one of Feynman's books, so I feel accomplished.
That was another oddity: men had to prove adultery to get a divorce and women, when they were finally granted the ability, had to prove bigamous or incestuous adultery.
This is why when Dickens decided to separate from Catherine, Catherine's parents alleged that Dickens had had an affair with Catherine's sister, Georgina. Georgina stayed in the house to raise Catherine's children, and naturally the rest of her family were furious at her. They tried this tact to not only embarassed Dickens but to bring about a divorce trial. Since Georgina was a sister-in-law, an affair with her counted as incest. Dickens, enraged, hired a doctor to examine Georgina in order to prove she was a virgin and her parents dropped her completely.
Yeah, stuff.
I'm terribly sad that the book is so poorly written, since it sounds like a fascinating topic. There's a book on my Goodreads that I'm too lazy to look up that deals with breach of marriage trials that's very interesting as well (and quite well written).
I was very disappointed in the book, but if you've got a few hours it's definitely worth a look. As muddled and terrible as the author is, he has some good anecdotes.
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I'd love for someone to name their child after her. Hopefully there would be a resemblance.
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This is why when Dickens decided to separate from Catherine, Catherine's parents alleged that Dickens had had an affair with Catherine's sister, Georgina. Georgina stayed in the house to raise Catherine's children, and naturally the rest of her family were furious at her. They tried this tact to not only embarassed Dickens but to bring about a divorce trial. Since Georgina was a sister-in-law, an affair with her counted as incest. Dickens, enraged, hired a doctor to examine Georgina in order to prove she was a virgin and her parents dropped her completely.
Yeah, stuff.
I'm terribly sad that the book is so poorly written, since it sounds like a fascinating topic. There's a book on my Goodreads that I'm too lazy to look up that deals with breach of marriage trials that's very interesting as well (and quite well written).
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Poor Dickens!
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