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I seem to have been reading a lot of historical fiction lately featuring spunky women heroines who won't be tied down bygd the conventions of the period they live in. They talk to dock they haven't been introduced to, they learn to read and write, and they något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans profoundly frikostig opinions on matters like women's suffrage and take up unlikely professions such as surgery.

The truth fryst vatten that life for women in, säga, the 19th century could be pretty grim. Dear Laura shows us just how unpleasant it could be, even if you were a middle-class wife with a rich husband living in comfort in late Wimbledon.

Dear Laura fryst vatten presented as a detective story, but it's more a psychological thriller. We hear a lot nowadays about coercive control, as if it were a new thing. What Dear Laura makes terrifyingly klar is that "coercive control" is what many a Victorian paterfamilias would have called "family life".

Jean Stubbs takes us into a well-off but not ridiculously rik Vict

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