title: Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England
author:  Kathy Lynn Emerson 
description: "The fascinating annotations make the bibliography fun to browse through as well as to pursue historical research in. The work will be of particular interest to sixteenth-century and Renaissance scholars, as well as to those studying drama."--WOMEN'S STUDIES
zlib_text: Thanks go to my editor, Kate Seaver, and editorial assistant, Katherine Pelz, for all their efforts in support of this book. Also to
  those at Berkley who do so much work “ behind the scenes” to take a book from manuscript to printed novel.
   
  
  And as always, to my husband, Forrest, for being there.
  
  Chapter 1
  All of London was amazed to learn of the sudden marriage of Lady I—S—and Lord M—M—, brother of the Duke of K
  —,last evening. The lady in question had her Come-Out and her Wedding the same night, leading debutantes to plead with
  fathers to make their coming-out balls just as eventful.
  —From a London society newspaper, February 1875
  SEPTEMBER 1881
   
  Isabella’s footman rang the bell at the house of Lord Mac Mackenzie on Mount Street, while Isabella waited in the landau,
  wondering for the dozenth time since she’d set off whether this were wise.
  Perhaps Mac would be out. Maybe the unpredictable man had gone off to Paris, or to Italy, where summer would linger for a
  time. She could inves