Title: A presumptuous book
Review: I found Elizabeth's account rather condescending. I only managed to read the chapter on arranged marriages and her treatment of the account of the gracious couple who were obviously happy with their situation was ridiculous. She simply could not believe that any one who had had an arranged (and this is not the same as forced) marriage could be happy. She then talks in depth about one unhappy arranged marriage. Considering her own parents 'love' marriage broke up and the record number of divorces following 'love' marriages in the West I think she was being very presumptuous in thinking that she could write authoratatively on the subject.
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