Mrs Robinson's Disgrace
The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2012
320 pages
978-1-4088-1253-2 (ISBN)
Description
On a mild winter's evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a grand sandstone terrace lit by gas lamps.
The guests were gathered in the high, airy drawing rooms on the first floor, the ladies in glinting silk and satin pulled tight over boned corsets; the gentlemen in tailcoats, waistcoats and neckties. When Mrs Robinson joined the throng she was at once enchanted by a Mr Edward Lane, a handsome medical student ten years her junior. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man's charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, which she was to find hard to shake...
The guests were gathered in the high, airy drawing rooms on the first floor, the ladies in glinting silk and satin pulled tight over boned corsets; the gentlemen in tailcoats, waistcoats and neckties. When Mrs Robinson joined the throng she was at once enchanted by a Mr Edward Lane, a handsome medical student ten years her junior. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man's charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, which she was to find hard to shake...
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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978-1-4088-1253-2 (9781408812532)
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Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in north London. Mrs Robinson's Disgrace is her third book.
Content
- Mrs Robinson's Disgrace
- Praise for Mrs Robinson's Disgrace
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue
- BOOK I: THIS SECRET FRIEND
- 1 HERE I MAY GAZE AND DREAM
- 2 POOR DEAR DODDY
- 3 THE SILENT SPIDER
- 4 MY IMAGINATION HEATED AS THOUGH WITH REALITIES
- 5 AND I KNEW THAT I WAS WATCHED
- 6 THE FUTURE HORRIBLE
- BOOK II: OUT FLEW THE WEB
- 7 IMPURE PROCEEDINGS
- 8 I HAVE LOST EVERY THING
- 9 BURN THAT BOOK, AND BE HAPPY!
- 10 AN INSANE TENDERNESS
- 11 A GREAT DITCH OF POISON
- 12 THE VERDICT
- 13 IN DREAMS THAT CANNOT BE LAID
- CODA: DO YOU ALSO PAUSE TO PITY?
- Acknowledgements
- Family Trees
- List of lawyers in the Robinson Divorce Trial
- Select Bibliography
- Notes
- A Note on the Author
- Also Available by Kate Summerscale
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction by Kate Summercale
- Part I
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- Part II
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- Part III
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- Footnotes
- Further Reading
- eCopyright
