Dorothy Gray
, mother of the poet Thomas Gray
(who was then nearly twenty), sought legal advice about the physical and verbal abuse she endured from her husband and what recourse she might have in law.
Gray, Thomas, and Herbert Willmarth Starr. Correspondence. Editors Toynbee, Paget and Leonard Whibley, Clarendon Press, 1971, 3 vols.
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Wealth and Poverty
Thomas Gray
Throughout the Gray marriage, as agreed in the initial settlement, Dorothy Gray
was in business as a shop-keeper with her sister and brother. She cost her husband not a penny, since she paid for her...