Rosa Dartle in David Copperfield, pub. 1850:
"If I had been his wife, I could have been the slave of his caprices for a word of love a-year. I should have been...I descended...into a doll, a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour, to be dropped, and taken up, and trifled with..."
Stella Elizabeth Williamson, 1960:
"Today I started to bleed and I want to make things right if anything should happen to me. In the attic in an old trunk you will find babies I had to Howard Drass thirty years or more. How I got away with I don't know but I did so I don't want anyone else to be blamed for something they know nothing about. This is one reason I could never marry anyone else. I have lived a good life since so as God is my judge this is the truth. Please forgive me if you can....
Stella
He never wanted me. Only something to play with and I was a fool in his hands."
"If I had been his wife, I could have been the slave of his caprices for a word of love a-year. I should have been...I descended...into a doll, a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour, to be dropped, and taken up, and trifled with..."
Stella Elizabeth Williamson, 1960:
"Today I started to bleed and I want to make things right if anything should happen to me. In the attic in an old trunk you will find babies I had to Howard Drass thirty years or more. How I got away with I don't know but I did so I don't want anyone else to be blamed for something they know nothing about. This is one reason I could never marry anyone else. I have lived a good life since so as God is my judge this is the truth. Please forgive me if you can....
Stella
He never wanted me. Only something to play with and I was a fool in his hands."