by Margaret Forster · Chatto & Windus · tapa dura · ISBN 9780701169145
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«Good Wives?» is the biographical and social essay by Margaret Forster, published by Chatto & Windus in hardcover (364 pages, in English).
Margaret Forster examines what it means to be a «good wife» through her own marriage and those of three women who fascinated her: Mary Livingstone, Fanny Stevenson and Jennie Lee. Combining personal memoir and biography, she ranges from 1845 to 2001 to ask whether marriage and the role of women have truly changed.
The work picks up the thread of «Hidden Lives», Margaret Forster's memoir. The volume's subtitle is «Mary, Fanny, Jennie and me, 1845-2001».
For readers interested in women's history, marriage and personal memoir, with a biographical and social focus.
Margaret Forster was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.
