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| Book: | Albion's Story |
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| Author: | Kate Grenville |
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| Publisher: | Harvest/HBJ Book |
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In this “startling, fasciniating, disturbing” (Library Journal) companion to Lilian’s Story, Kate Grenville takes on a daunting challenge: to imagine, from the inside out, how an apparently respectable Victorian gentleman can persuade himself that he has a right, perhaps even a “manly” duty to rape any woman under his control: his shopgirls, his servants, his wife, even his daughter.