married women

Thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell embarks on an emotional journey into the past when she is the victim of a hit-and-run driver, and in the haze of recovery, believes she is visited by her uncle, the Catholic priest who raised her following the deaths of her parents, and who she had been told died shortly after she was removed from his care at the age of nine following a housekeeper's charge of sexual abuse.

A thirty-five-year-old white woman lies in her secluded home, unable to speak after a violent assault that has nearly taken her life; her husband, a famous black actor, is in jail, accused of the crime, but she is sure her husband isn't the man who attacked her and must find a way to prove his innocence.

A woman who loses her sanity after her husband and doctor recommend she remains locked in a room with strange, yellow wallpaper while she recovers from postpartum depression.

Presents an annotated edition of "The Scarlet Letter," the story of a young wife convicted of adultery in seventeenth-century New England, and includes five shorter works by Hawthorne, a selection of the author's letters and notebook entries, and critical commentary.

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.

Ellen's seemingly perfect marriage comes into question when she runs into Leo, the man who left her brokenhearted eight years before.

Karen Sommerfield returns to her grandmother's farm in order to sort out the problems of a troubled marriage, recent miscarriage, cancer, and the loss of her job and discovers answers through family, the quietness and beauty of the Missouri Ozarks, and a lonely child in need of love.

Traces the history of marriage in the Judeo-Christian world over the course of several centuries, discussing the legal, religious, social, economic, and political factors that have affected wives; featuring stories of married women who have rebelled against the conventions of their time; and considering what marriage means to a modern-day woman.