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Enter a Gentlewoman (Antony Maitland, Bk 34)
Enter a Gentlewoman - Antony Maitland, Bk 34 Author:Sara Woods Elizabeth Coke is not prepared to wait three years to obtain a divorce from her husband, a solicitor named Edward Coke. She claims to have been treated with "exceptional depravity", and to prove this in the divorce courts she has enlisted the services of no less a person than Sir Nicholas Harding, Q.C. — Meanwhile, Coke himself is ready... more » for litigation against his wife, in the form of a libel case. She has written a letter to a friend in which she describes the "exceptional depravity" of which she complains; the letter has been shown to friends and therefore -- technically -- published. The barrister of Cole's choice is Antony Maitland, Q.C., Sir Nicholas Harding's nephew« less