title: How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britains Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
author:  Wendy Moore 
description: Who hasnt dreamed of a perfect better half? But one eighteenth-century British philosopher attempted to make that dream come true. Moore (Wedlock, 2009) lays out the incredible true story of Thomas Day. Unable to find a spouse suited for the bare life of virtue he envisioned, Day set out to create her by taking two orphan girls and subjecting them, without their knowledge, to his wife-molding program. Moore wittily skewers Days pie-in-the-sky ideals as they clash disastrously with reality. This engaging account will appeal to a diverse audience, including Enlightenment philosophy students and Jane Austen fans. Day is ludicrous, insufferable, arrogantand utterly engrossing. His quixotic quest fired the plots of numerous fictional works, including Pygmalion, that examined the quest for perfection. The narrative pulses forward briskly, moving between Days story and those of the orphan girls. Drawing on detailed personal accounts, Moore creates suspense and surprise in a manner rarely achieved in biographies. An unusual and unusually fascinating story. --Bridget Thoreson
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  ### Product Description
  
   **One woman in search of passion**
  
  Miss Cecilia Hastings has achieved what every young lady hopes for during her
  first London season...in duplicate! She’s caught the eye of not one but two of
  England’s most eligible bachelors. Both Jeremy Battersley, Earl of Henley, and
  Richard Huxley, Duke of Wexford, are handsome, wealthy and kind, the epitome
  of proper gentlemen. But Cecilia doesn’t want proper, she wants passion. So
  she issues a challenge to her suitors: a kiss, so that she may choose between
  them.
  
   **Two men in love with the same woman**
  
  Friends since childhood, and compatriots on the battlefields of Spain, Jeremy
  and Richard have found that falling for the same woman has set them at odds
  and risks destroying their friendship forever. But a surprising invitation to
  a late-night garden tryst s