Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace

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When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was ‘fascinating’, she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man’s charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to shake...

In one of the most notorious divorce cases of the nineteenth century, Isabella Robinson’s scandalous secrets were exposed to the world. Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife’s longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality.

Critics Review

  • Simply superb

    Guardian

  • Extraordinary

    Daily Telegraph

  • Like her previous book, I was hooked after the first few pages. It’s as good as non-fiction could possibly get

    Daily Mail

  • Grippingly suspenseful … Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace displays a scalpel-sharp investigative mind, and it vividly conveys the immediate surroundings of the case, from the stench of the polluted Thames infiltrating Westminster Hall to the degradations of Victorian marriage, as evidenced in contemporary divorce cases

    Sunday Times

  • Summerscale strikes nonfiction gold for the third time

    Independent on Sunday

  • Summerscale’s brilliance lies not only in recognising the power of a particular story, but in charting, with beautiful precision, its strange echoes and reverberations

    Mail on Sunday

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