Wednesday I've recently been reading a series called Lady Darby Mysteries. The heroine is a 19th century, upper class women who investigates. She is an artist and despite constraints on women, at that time, her paintings do produce an income. In the series, Lady Darby (Kiera) lives in seclusion in the remote Scotland home of her sister and brother in-law. Previously, Lady Darby had been married to a nasty man who only married her for her artist abilities. He'd wanted to produce a medical journal but didn't want to pay for an artist. He hid his true intentions while acquiring the approval of Kiera's father. After the marriage he forced Kiera to watch dissections of cadavers so she could sketch body parts. Fortunately, he dies from a heart attack two years into their marriage. It's interesting to read about how women lived in the 19th century. The author, Anne Lee Huber, has taken care to be accurate with not only women's habits, clothing and, speech but also wa...
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