Tells story of married Victorian-era housewife, bored and tired of husband's neglect, nastiness and general disposition who details an avid lovelife in her daily journals. Shows the changes in the Divorce Court from church to civil in the mid-1800 Great Britain, as well as the prevailing attitudes that women, due to their sex, and intellectually inferior and prone to "hysteria" and mania due to uterine diseases. Shame that some of those attitudes are still prevalent in today's modern medicine. Fantasy life works to woman's disadvantage as she clears her fantasy object from his accusations of adultery (the male adulterer was legally named in court documents), ruining her reputation in the process. Were the shoe on the other foot, most men were and are not ruined by such accusations, rather admired. Sad, but true, and quite a good story.