Wedlock
How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match
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Narrated by:
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Rachel Atkins
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By:
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Wendy Moore
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Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney.
Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore, who died young, and, pregnant with her lover's child, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week.
But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney was broke and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Once married to Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment, seizing her lands, beating her, terrorising servants, introducing prostitutes to the family home, and kidnapping his own sister.
But finally, after many years, a servant helped Mary to escape. She began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day and was successful. But then Andrew kidnapped her and undertook a weeklong rampage of terror and cruelty until the law finally caught up with him.
©2009 Wendy Moore (P)2015 Orion Publishing GroupWhat listeners say about Wedlock
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- A. Egan
- 05-01-2022
A fascinating look at an early and textbook case of DV
I purchased this book expecting it to be fiction, but my mistake didn’t stop me from listening beginning to end. The life of the Countess of Strathmore, is absolutely fascinating. Whilst being highly educated and brought up in privilege and well educated, she was duped into marriage by a charming man who turned out to be the most horrific of abusers. Her useless husband was well protected by law. I was so heartbroken as the description of her treatment and abandonment by friends and would be allies unfolded. But the book outlines how opinion turned agains her abuser and captor, and many of her court cases landed unprecedented victories. Even as her (eventually) ex husband harassed, abused and slanders witnesses and allies her resolve was remarkable. And her story ends with the morning of the loss of other seas of life where she could have been an outstanding contributor, but for the actions of her abusive husband.
Am absolutely fantastic look at the life of an amazing woman and a demonstration of how far hard in legal rights for women have come.
I should also note that her case is recognisably the basis of several works of fiction, so I was not disappointed to learn about the actual history of the day.
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