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The Victorian's Sex Lives: Why Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong | Uncovered (2021x72)

Udgivelsesdato: Jun 22, 2021

Not everyone lived in marital bliss, however – as Victorians Uncovered exposes. Caroline Norton suffered at the hands of her abusive husband, but the law forbade her from divorcing him. Novelist George Eliot could not marry the man she loved because he was legally bound to remain married to another. How did these less fortunate women cope? And what effect did it have on Victoria's popularity?