{"id":23155,"date":"2024-02-03T17:42:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T22:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=23155"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:03:37","slug":"lady-helena-investigates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/23155","title":{"rendered":"Lady Helena Investigates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Helena Investigates<\/em><\/a> (2018) Jane Steen<\/a> (Scott-De Quincy Mysteries)<\/p>\n

\"Lady<\/a>Set in England in 1881<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too early to make big decisions about your life. You must give yourself time to grieve, Baby. That\u2019s why deepest mourning should be carried out with the mirrors covered, you know. You\u2019re not supposed to be looking at yourself and considering who you are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMama showed me once, when I was little, how she hid our names in her flower pictures. She said it made them more special. She thought it was very odd that I could see them, even though I couldn\u2019t read. But they\u2019re easier to see than the way writing usually looks. The letters don\u2019t move around.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cLetters move around?\u201d I looked curiously at my brother. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey do for me. They wiggle and slip away when I try to look at them. But this writing is in a picture, so the picture holds it steady for me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cOf course I\u2019d like love,\u201d I said a little testily. \u201cAnd when the time comes, I will choose with the greatest of care. After all, my new husband will have a great deal of control over my person and property, so he\u2019d better be truly devoted to me.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAre you sure he\u2019ll control your property?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

until 1883, widows could, in the right circumstances, hold infinitely more power than married women. In law, a married woman was a feme covert\u2014her property rights were covered over, subsumed, in truth smothered by those of her husband who, upon marriage, would assume ownership of all his wife\u2019s assets. Including their offspring<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Published by Aspidistra Press<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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