Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match

Wendy Moore

502 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography historical history emotional informative medium-paced
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"'Wedlock' tells the remarkable true story of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, who became Britain's richest heiress on the death of her entrepreneur father when she was 11. After an unhappy first marriage to John Lyon, the 9th Earl of S...

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