The story of Caroline of Brunswick, who in 1795 married George, Prince of Wales, in a tragic marriage. She became the only Queen of England to be tried for adultery.

Sheds light on the complex web of allusions that link medieval authors to their literary predecessors

Anita stared intently at Kofi unconsciously, trying to conceal her affection for him, yet she couldn’t. As he stretched his hands and reached out to her, it was obvious that her inviting and prodding eyes were enough for Kofi. She kissed and moaned under her weakened emotions, kissed him passionately, and sunk into his arms like a defeated wrestler. All she thought to be true was a dream; all she saw was a mirage. Life had not been fateful to her. She has been rejected and left to cater for her kid alone. She is exposed to the naked realities of the world and surely unending suffering. Who is to be blamed for her upbringing? What about her unexpected end?

Based on a study of over 400 women worldwide, Runaway Husbands: The Abandoned Wife's Guide to Recovery and Renewal, is the first book to explore and offer healing strategies to women whose lives have been turned upside down by Wife Abandonment Syndrome. This Revised and Updated edition expands on the groundbreaking first edition that led to the development of an amazing global community of women working together to recover from Wife Abandonment Syndrome - when a husband leaves out-of-the-blue from what his wife believed to be a happy, secure marriage. Following his sudden departure, he typically replaces the caring he'd previously shown her with blame and anger, leaving his bewildered wife totally devastated. The Revised and Updated edition includes new chapters that discuss the husband's possible Covert Narcissism, the effect of this kind of divorce on the father/adult child relationship and the challenges of co-parenting with an ex following abandonment. Written by family therapist Vikki Stark, MSW, who herself had a runaway husband, the book helps women understand in full what could motivate a loving husband to morph overnight into an uncaring stranger and provides them with the tools they need to move forward and rebuild their lives.

At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.

" I like the delicate power of these verses, it comes along with scents, images, all so vivid..."E.G. Trejos

"When a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony?s moral tone, the governor responded, “If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here at all.” Primitive, mosquito infested, and disease ridden, early French colonial New Orleans offered few attractions to entice respectable women as residents. King Louis XIV of France solved the population problem in 1721 by emptying Paris?s La Salp?tri?re prison of many of its most notorious prostitutes and convicts and sending them to Louisiana. Many of these women continued to ply their trade in New Orleans" -- inside cover.