How to Create the Perfect Wife - Tapa dura

Thomas Day knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal yet tough and hardy, she would live with him in an isolated cottage, completely subservient to his whims. As Day soon discovered, the woman of his dreams didn't exist in Georgian society. But rather than concede defeat, Day set out to create her. He adopted two young orphans and attempted to teach them to be model wives, hoping one day to marry one of them. The experiment inevitably backfired, though not before he had taken his theories about marriage, education and femininity to their most shocking extremes.