title: Lady Worsley's Whim: The divorce that Scandalised Georgian England by Hallie Rubenhold (2008-12-16)
author:  Hallie Rubenhold 
description: Nothing else in the genre is close to being this good. As a historian and a storyteller, Hallie Rubenhold is in a league of her own.<br /> <i>Literary Review</i><br /><br />[Rubenhold] traces the knife-edge that women walked between social success and public disgrace with subtlety and assurance.<br /> <i>Spectator</i>
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  he elegant travelling carriage which bore Miss Wychwood from her birthplace,
  on the border of Somerset and Wiltshire, to her home in Bath, proceeded on its
  way at a decorous pace. This was dictated by her coachman, an elderly
  autocrat, who, having known her from the day of her birth, almost thirty years
  before, drove her at the pace he considered proper, and turned a deaf ear to
  her requests to him to "put 'em along!" If she didn't know what was due to her
  consequence, as Miss Wychwood of Twynham Park, he did; and even if she was an
  old maid—in fact, almost an ape-leader, though he would never call her one,
  and had turned off the impudent stable-boy who had dared to do so, after
  giving him a rare box on the ear—he knew very well how his late master would
  have wished his only dau