Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies (The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions)

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For a proper wife by day can become a husband’s secret mistress by night, when delicious desire rules. We regret that we also cannot accept cancellations of contracts for the purchase of video, DVD, audio, and software products where the item has been unsealed. As he proved, later in the book (which is the funniest part of it, actually, since he has only to crook his little finger and everyone is your-grace-ing and running around to do his bidding and the whole situation is resolved in three minutes flat and Jane is so irritated that, after all that she’s been through, it’s just so easy for him, being a man and a duke and rich and all that; and I totally got why she was so annoyed). In other words, people from all over the political spectrum should be able to identify with the characters, it is not just a book for libertarians.

These voters would not have the power to pass their own laws and tyrannize the less educated, only the power to prevent laws. From time to time I join forces with other like-minded female dominants, to push a little at my slaves’ limits, test their capabilities, and just because I enjoy it quite a lot actually!

Viola did not regret that she had let down her guard — until the next morning, when he appeared at her door to claim her beloved Pinewood Manor.

I think it is the third time, perhaps the fourth, I have read the book, and the first time I read it in English and not in the Italian translation. It’s been such a fun-filled, frantic journey visiting my Mistress friend Lady J Red in Surrey but all good things must come to an end and I must announce our final tour dates.

Instead, he’s the typical Regency alpha-male hero – arrogant, rude, selfish, temperamental, reckless and all kinds of other unpleasantnesses.