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How to Create the Perfect Wife The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman

Paperback • 2014 • English

How to Create the Perfect Wife The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman

By Wendy Moore

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From the No.1 bestselling author of WEDLOCK. The Georgian scandal of one gentleman, two orphans and an experiment to create the ideal wife. This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit or fortune. Instead, he adopted two orphan girls from a Foundling Hospital, and set about educating them to become the meek, docile women he considered marriage material. Unsurprisingly, Day's marriage plans did not run smoothly. Having r...Show more

Biography: arts and entertainment

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ISBN

9780753828953

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

How to Create the Perfect Wife The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman

Format

Paperback

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