A rash promise and Scotland's marriage laws trap a woman with a brutal husband. Collins's sensation novel with a social-reform edge.
Books mentioned in Man and Wife (4)
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “Paradise Lost. A Poem. By John Milton."”
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio: “Sir Patrick, deep in an old Venetian edition of The Decameron, found himself suddenly recalled from medieval Italy to modern England, by no less a person than Geoffrey Delamayn.”
The Newgate Calendar: “It was the ghastly popular record of Criminal Trials in England, called the Newgate Calendar.”