A Mummer's Wife, Volume 10The degradation by drink of a shopkeeper's wife. The novel tells the story of Kate Ede, a bored Midlands housewife unhappily married to an asthmatic draper. When a handsome travelling actor comes to lodge with her family, she succumbs to temptation, with disastrous consequences. |
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