Mrs Townsend
Aug. 12th, 2012 12:26 amConsidering the idea of the Victorian woman as submissive, chaste and obedience, with a case study: Mary Townsend, who in middle of the century lived in Launceston, with her husband William. Mostly.
CAUTION-- I hereby caution the public against harboring or giving credit to my wife Mary Townsend after this date she having left her home about three weeks ago without cause or provocation, leaving with me three young children. Should any person give such information as will lead to her whereabouts, they will greatly oblige. William Townsend, Quadrant. 19 June [1861] 1
But William needn't have worried. His absent wife turned up a few weeks later:
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CAUTION-- I hereby caution the public against harboring or giving credit to my wife Mary Townsend after this date she having left her home about three weeks ago without cause or provocation, leaving with me three young children. Should any person give such information as will lead to her whereabouts, they will greatly oblige. William Townsend, Quadrant. 19 June [1861] 1
But William needn't have worried. His absent wife turned up a few weeks later:
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