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Article: Women a long way from liberation; Women in early modern England. By Sarah Mendelson and Patricia Crawford. (Oxford University Press, pounds 25). Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. By Pam Hirsch (Chatto & Windus, pounds 20). Reviewed by Monica Foot.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- January 30, 1999
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When Anne Dormer, the second wife of Robert Dormer of Rousham, wrote to her sister, Lady Elizabeth Trumbell, in 1689, about her life and its routines - social, financial, sexual and personal - she described her marriage as a cage: "I must not exasperate him, for I and my poor children are in his power."
"Dormer's jealousy," write Mendelson and Crawford, "had led his wife to resolve never to go beyond the garden; sometimes she did not see another face for two months." Nominally the mistress of a huge household staffed by 30 domestics, including several loving and ...