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In this compelling second volume of Mona Cairds powerful exploration of marriage and its societal constraints, we follow Viola Sedley as she confronts the impending doom of a coerced marriage to Philip Dendraith. With the wedding day drawing near, Viola shares her fears about Philips troubling behavior, particularly his cruelty towards animals, only to be met with indifference from her mother, who believes Viola can change him. Meanwhile, Harry Lancaster passionately strives to rescue Viola from her fate, but his efforts seem futile. The arrival of the enigmatic Sibella Lincoln, rumored to ...

The Yellow Drawing Room is a story told through the eyes of an archetypical Victorian gentleman. He has met and fallen under the spell of the beautiful Vanora Haydon. Vanora has been given permission to decorate and furnish a drawing room and has chosen to do so in brilliant yellow. She has created her own room, reflective of her own personality and individuality - something which the conservative narrator cannot cope with.

To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe and reveal how life actually felt for almost all women before the recent past.