HOW TO TAME A TURBULENT HUSBAND
A TALE OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
In 1807 they were looking back to the 15th century for helpful advice and inspiration. It sounds like a typical anti-male article, but sometimes when we look back in time we see the origins of things. This is how the story starts:
A Tradesman who lived in a village near St. Albans, had been twice married, and ill-treated his wives so as to cause their death. He sought a third, but as his brutality was well known in the place where he dwelt, he was obliged to go fifty miles off for a wife.
He obtained one, and after he brought her home, all the neighbours came to visit her, and acquaint her in what manner her husband used to treat his former wives. This somewhat surprised her, but she resolved to wait patiently till her lord and master might take it into his head to beat her. She did not wait long, for her husband was a terrible fellow.
--From
La Belle assemblée--
2 comments:
What a fascinating story. Take care of the trunk! Ha, the mental image of ladies taking tea over a trunk full of wife beater is priceless.
On the other hand:
He beat his wives to death and the only problems he ran into were in finding new women to marry, and the disapproval of his female neighbors.
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