| She has one polar-opposite, control-freak sister who's militantly committed to wifehood and motherhood and wears unflattering tracksuits. |
| It works at the same time to bring to expression a female eroticism not tied to a biographical trajectory of wifehood and motherhood. |
| It begins in 1950, and each part draws us backwards through the life of Antonia Fleming, till we arrive in 1926, when we find her as a young girl about to be tenderly deceived, baffled and bullied into wifehood. |
| She is new to wifehood, and she stands a little in awe of Jasper Wilmarth. |
| Teddy faced so much alone and bent contemporary rules of womanhood and wifehood along the way. |
| The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead. |
