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Victorian ladies lived it up; Letters.(Letter to the editor)

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20060811
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DOMINIC Sandbrook (9 August) compares Heather Mills embarking on her divorce to a Victorian wife cast aside by her husband and losing everything, such as Anthony Trollope's Emily Rowley. But this is perhaps an excessively pessimistic view of life for upper-class women in days when divorce was so rare, as Sandbrook admits.

By contrast, consider the prospects for a younger Victorian woman married to a wealthy older man. Once widowed she could end up with an unrestricted inheritance. She could, in the manner of Trollope's Arabella Greenow in Can You Forgive Her? enjoy her freedom ...

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