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How to Create the Perfect Wife

Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate

by Wendy Moore

Hardcover, 343 pages, Perseus Books Group, List Price: $27.99 |

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Title: How to Create the Perfect Wife
Subtitle: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
Author: Wendy Moore

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Traces the efforts of eighteenth-century author and radical Thomas Day to create an ideal wife, describing how he adopted two young orphans and raised them according to the extreme principles of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Enlightenment.

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A British Intellectual's Mission 'To Create The Perfect Wife'

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A British Intellectual's Mission 'To Create The Perfect Wife'

April 22, 2013 • Some people, unlucky in love, turn to matchmaking services. Thomas Day, an 18th century British intellectual, adopted two girls from an orphanage in order to mold them into the women of his dreams. Reviewer Cord Jefferson says Wendy Moore's history is so adroitly written it reads like a novel.

A British Intellectual's Mission 'To Create The Perfect Wife'

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