This eighteenth-century story of wife abuse centres on Lady Rachel Carse who is, as the book notes at its conclusion, based on the actual Lady Grange
. She having separated from and become a political...
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January 1732: Lord Grange abducted his wife to the remote...
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January 1732
Lord Grange
abducted his wife
to the remote Hebridean island of St Kilda, and gave out that she was dead.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
