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Lives In Previous Centuries For Women Are Largely A Matter Of Class. It Would Have Been Fun To Have Been A Rich, Privileged Woman In The 18th Century, But No Fun At All To Be Her Maid.

The Clue To Book Jacket Photography Is To Look Friendly And Approachable, But Not Too Glamorous.

I Have No Plans For A Future Jemima Shore Mystery, But Would Write One Tomorrow If A Good Idea Came To Me.

I Decided As Usual That Justice Lay In The Middle - That Is To Say Nowhere.

[in 16th Century European Society] Marriage Was The Triumphal Arch Through Which Women, Almost Without Exception, Had To Pass In Order To Reach The Public Eye. And After Marriage Followed, In Theory, The Total Self-abnegation Of The Woman.