Mrs Robinson's Disgrace - The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. 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, and she was to find it hard to shake...In one of the most notorious divorce cases of the nineteenth century, Isabella Robinson-s scandalous secrets were exposed to the world. Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife-s longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality.