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AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME..
HIS WIFE'S PRISON?
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The Manorial Pile
Women, rediscover the delights Once married, all her property,
of lost servitude! Shake off the including earnings and inheri-
shackles of equality and subject tances, passed automatically into
yourself to your lord and master! her husband's ownership and he
Pay homage to your past en- was entitled to do with it what-
slavement in the beautiful sur- ever he wished, even disinherit
rounds of The Manor - West her. All this and only 140 years
Swindon's latest, most expensive ago.
development - complete with Thankfully, we've come a long
BELT UP IN THE BACK way since then, but some people,
fortified enclosure (to keep out
with Swindon Seat Belt Centre Wiltshire peasantry), 'Ye olde Wimpeys included, seem to wish
to turn the clock back, not just a
BRITAX 2-WAY £49.50 ducke ponde and twinne garndges.' century and a half, but further
So goes the marketing of the
Unit 16, Station Industrial Estate, Sheppard Street, new executive mansions on the still to medieval institutions,
Swindon. Telephone: (0793) 613147 patriarchal domains and huge
'manorial estate' built by Wimpey inequality.
financial, social and sexual
down Middleleaze Drive, Shaw;
E5 or so it goes to me, reading dated as their history. The pro-
Their ideas are about as out-
between the lines such as 'The
Manor has traditionally been the
motion literature claims 'The
home of the English Gentleman
and, in turn, it has been said an
ancient village of Lydiard Tregoze
Englishman's home is his castle...' Manor' to be situated in the
UNISEX HAIR DESIGNERS which 'has its own village centre
But were the good old days of
46 Manchester Road, Swindon dominated by the Link complex!
Tel: Swindon 34662 Merrie Englande all that good... Apart from the ludicrous
Introduces Dawn Ford especially if you were a woman? thought of such an ancient village
It was only 80 years ago that
Examples of Dawn & Maria's prices: women became legally assured of having at its centre a complex as
Cut & Blow Dry £12.00 control over their property and ultra-modern as the Link Centre,
Perm £25.00 including cut 140 years ago the English even local archaeologists tell us that
Highlights £25.00 including cut Lydiard Tregoze vanished soon
denied a married women legal
A II prices include mousse & conditioner. existence. In common with child- after its heyday in the Middle
Special rates for OAPs on Tuesday ren and the certified insane she Ages. The site of the village has
and Wednesday had no responsibility under the never been found but Wimpeys
law. A married woman could not seem to know otherwise!
Did Wimpey's advertising
"Doctors spent fourteen sign a contract, make a will, or copywriter think beyond his (and
cast a vote; she could be im-
years developing this diet. prisoned for refusing her husband it must have been a male!) trite
cliches promising an obsolete
It changed my life in as his so-called conjugal rights. status and dream to their possible
Until 1891 she could be de-
implications? Apparently not. So
many days." tained, quite legally, by her what lifestyle do Wimpey's
husband in his (not 'their) house.
Susan Walsh of Tooting found success with the promise if you inherit an estate
She could not obtain a divorce, on The Manor? Will women again
Cambridge Diet lf Susan and millions like her can do it
then so could you except by Act of Parliament, so become mere chattels! Will the
costly a procedure that it was local villagers tug their forelocks
Debbie 487692 Elaine 612727 virtually unobtainable. Only if and pay an annual tithe of two
she committed murder or treason oxen to wash their clothes in your
Jan 872693
did her husband cast her off and duck pond? Or is this simply a
not bear responsibility for her silly and superficial piece of
'Can trip ..Iininting or ito gut control unIt as part of a caloric contrullcil (11(1 crimes. Once engaged to be marketing, designed to appeal to
ARP married a woman could not our snobbery, greed and lust for
THE Cáinbr!dQe DIET dispose of any of her possessions power: in short, all that's worst
without her fiancés permission. in us.
