The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her — "Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness..."


Daniel Deronda (1876)


The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her — Oh, child, men's ...

The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her — Oh, child, men's ...

The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her — Oh, child, men's ...

The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her — Oh, child, men's ...