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Book of the Week: Kate Summerscale - Mrs Robinson's Disgrace

Book of the Week: Kate Summerscale - Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: Episode 4

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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace

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Kate Summerscale - Mrs Robinson's Disgrace

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Kate Summerscale - Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, Episode 4

High drama as Mrs Robinson's diaries are taken away by her opportunistic husband.

High drama as the diaries of Mrs Isabella Robinson are discovered and taken away - by no less a person than her opportunistic husband. Read by Emma Fielding.

"The judges were presented with a singular case on Monday 14 June, a month after they had heard their first divorce suit. Henry Oliver Robinson, a civil engineer, was petitioning for the dissolution of his marriage on the grounds that his wife, Isabella, had committed adultery, and he submitted as evidence a diary in her hand."

These bare facts - the angry husband and the incriminating words - are, in the author's hands, shaped to tell a riveting story, that says much about the individuals involved and the social world they moved in... 

High drama, as the diaries of Mrs Isabella Robinson are discovered and taken away. 
By no less a person than her opportunistic husband...

Reader Emma Fielding
Producer Duncan Minshull.

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Kate Summerscale's book follows a sensational trial in Victorian England

Kate Summerscale's book follows the trial of Mrs Isabella Robinson, who, in the 1850s, faced a sensational divorce case brought by her scheming husband. Read by Emma Fielding

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