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Overview: Rosings Park, Kent 1799….
Catherine de Bourgh stared down at her daughter with distaste. She had never wanted children, much less the disappointment of a girl. What good was a female to anyone? The lives of women were dictated by men, and even in death, those same creatures had the final word. To make matters worse, the child was rather small, and had bouts of colic and every other infant ailment that one could imagine. The doctors had tried all manner of remedies, eventually giving up hope that Anne de Bourgh would live past infancy. But she had survived, and now returned her mother’s stare with equal disdain, if not outright contempt. Where most children eagerly desired the attentions a parent lavished upon them, Anne de Bourgh all but ignored her mother, showing complete favoritism to her father. It was to the welcome arms of Lewis de Bourgh that she reached, and upon his shoulder that she slept. And if offered to the one who carried her and bore the pains of labor, Anne screamed in refusal.
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Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics ; Fiction > Regency; Adaptations & Pastiche
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