Tome - Butterfly 🦋📚🌻’s Reviews > The Manual for Good Wives > Status Update

This is such a great book it recovered from a minor lag and is back in full force!! Wow! Listening to the last part on audio and it has really brought it alive

“She turned to me, her expression serious. ‘This doesn’t have to be about love,’ she repeated. ‘This is about survival.’” Oh to be a woman, in a patriarchal world!

“With lineages inspected and financial accounts studied, the next stage is engagement and then marriage. But what of love? Mrs Adeline Copplefield, ‘The Manual for Good Wives’ (1893)…”

“Ross, once her anchor, now feeling like an albatross around her neck…”
Once again floored by this author’s writing! I want to highlight every sentence

“Apparently the humiliation of emptying my stomach just a foot away from the chief’s ugly feet did nothing to dampen his enthusiasm for making me his wife…” 🙆🏾‍♀️🤭