The Weaker Vessel

Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century England

• Author(s): Antonia Fraser,
• Publisher: Mandarin
• Pages: 612
• ISBN_10: 0749316527
  ISBN_13: 9780749316525
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Women , Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Europe , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widowed?