Whenever I am tempted to think about how "romantic" it must have been to have lived in the 19th Century, I recall stories like this one and remember that it wasn't so long ago women had no rights and were completely at the mercy of the males in their family.
Had Sherlock Holmes not helped her, what recourse would she have had, even if she had broken things off with her fiance?
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Date: 2012-09-15 06:02 pm (UTC)Had Sherlock Holmes not helped her, what recourse would she have had, even if she had broken things off with her fiance?