Thomas Day’s Quest for the Perfect Wife
Stuff You Missed in History Class
English - August 29, 2016 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB - ★★★★ - 22.6K ratingsHistory Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Eighteenth-century Englishman Thomas Day decided that the only way to have a perfect wife was to create one. So he adopted two orphans and attempted to train them, sometimes in incredibly abusive ways.
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