Wanting Legs & Arms & Eyes
Clare Bucknell: Surplus Sons, 5 March 2020
“... in a different position. How they chose a profession, or how their parents chose one for them, as Rory Muir demonstrates, determined to a substantial degree the quality and even the length of their life. Barring a couple of unlikely ways out, such as marrying a rich heiress (rare because rich heiresses tended to marry men at least as rich as they ... ”