subgenius wrote:yes, because it is so shocking to imagine a woman under the age of 18 being married in the early 19th century!
No. Specifically, it is shocking to those of us that hold fast to traditional family values that he was a hoarder of mistresses. Tragic the families of these women did not liberate the earth from him before his damage path extended past his only legal wife.
subgenius wrote:yes, because it is so shocking to imagine a woman under the age of 18 being married in the early 19th century!
No. Specifically, it is shocking to those of us that hold fast to traditional family values that he was a hoarder of mistresses. Tragic the families of these women did not liberate the earth from him before his damage path extended past his only legal wife.
When you say 'only legal wife' you mean Emma, the girl he secretly eloped with against her fathers wishes?
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