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Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the type of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an British country maid yet challenging and hardy such as a Spartan heroine, she'd live with him in an isolated cottage, completely subservient to his whims. But after being declined by a number of spirited young women, Day concluded that the perfect spouse he envisioned simply did not exist in frivolous, fashion-obsessed Georgian population. Instead of conceding beat and giving up his search for the woman of his dreams, however, Day set out to create her. So begins the astonishing true story at the heart of How to Create the Perfect Better half, prize-winning historian Wendy Moore's fascinating tale of 1 man's quest to groom his ideal mate. A couple of days after he converted 21 and inherited a big fortune, Day implemented two young orphans from the Foundling Clinic and, led by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the ideas of the Enlightenment, attempted to teach them to be model wives. After half a year he discarded one gal, calling her "invincibly stupid", and focused his initiatives on his remaining charge. He subjected her to a number of cruel studies - including falling hot wax on her forearms and firing pistols at her dresses - to test her resolve but the young female, perhaps unsurprisingly, eventually rebelled against her domestic slavery. Day had hoped eventually to marry her, but his peculiar test inevitably backfired - though not before he had taken his theories about relationship, education, and femininity to stunning extremes. Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Better half is an engrossing tale of the radicalism - and profound contradictions - at the heart of the Enlightenment.
