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A Wife's Duty
Hardcover
Historical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781023369732
Publisher: Anson Street Press
Published: Mar 29 2025
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Amelia Alderson Opie's A Wife's Duty: A Tale explores the complexities of marriage and the moral dilemmas faced by women in the 19th century. This compelling work of domestic fiction offers a glimpse into the social expectations and pressures that shaped women's lives during this period.
A significant contribution to literary fiction, A Wife's Duty presents a nuanced social commentary through its narrative. Opie masterfully crafts a story that resonates with timeless themes of duty, love, and the challenges of navigating societal constraints. Discover a richly drawn world where personal desires clash with the demands of convention in this classic tale of 19th-century life.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.
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