Prize-winning historian Wendy Moore's captivating tale of British writer Thomas Day's mission to groom his ideal mate captures the radicalism -- and deep contradictions -- at the heart of the Enlightenment.
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"The first scholarly study to recover a geographically diverse array of eighteenth and nineteenth-century countertexts that actively compare culturally diverse marriage practices from Canada to the Caribbean"
"The first scholarly study to recover a geographically diverse array of eighteenth and nineteenth-century countertexts that actively compare culturally diverse marriage practices from Canada to the Caribbean"--
This study challenges the widely-held view that success in personal relationships is the only key to happiness. In a series of biographical sketches, it demonstrates how many of the creative geniuses of our civilization have been solitary, by temperament or circumstance.