Brandon was hearty and sensual, rough of speech and a known lady-killer. Before long, he would be promising to marry Elizabeth of York’s maid, getting her pregnant, then ditching her in favour of his own widowed aunt, only to asset-strip
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“You see how deviously the institution of marriage threads itself through a woman’s life? If she does not marry she is perpetually a child—until she is suddenly an old woman, that is.”
― The Stanbroke Girls
― The Stanbroke Girls
“Edward Glascocke of Easthampfield was brought before the Church courts in 1587 charged with sharing a bed with both his wife and his maid, a state of affairs that was held responsible for the three arriving very late for church in the mornings.18 In another case, the parson of Alphamstone in”
― The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
― The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
― The Horse and His Boy
― The Horse and His Boy
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