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  • Mrs Robinson's Disgrace

  • The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
  • By: Kate Summerscale
  • Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
  • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace

By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
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Summary

Bloomsbury presents Mrs Robinson's Disgrace by Kate Summerscale, read by Stephanie Racine.

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.

©2012 Kate Summerscale (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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enjoyable.

thoroughly enjoyed this unusual story and a gem from start to finish. great narrator. recommended.

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I liked The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - but

This book would have been much more enjoyable if the narrator had been more engaging. I couldn't finish the book sadly.

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Great book

Kate Summerscale is always quite brilliant! Her books are surprising, clever, intricate and carefully planned.

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Not at all what I expected..

..and couldn’t will the life to carry on listening to this miserable woman’s lamenting. Not sure the narrator could do much to improve it. It feels like the life source has been drained out of you...

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