Hilda Edith Frances Margaret Quarry and Gaslighting
Hilda Edith Frances Margaret Quarry and Francis John Quarry: 1918 divorce and Petition for Protection of Earnings Case. This is an enormous file of documents, letters, receipts, affidavits, and lawyers' letters collected by both Hilda E.F.M. Quarry and Francis in the course of their long and bitter separation and divorce. Some highlights are below. We are finally up to the age of typewritten documents, which makes my life vastly easier, but also leads to the occasional unexpected horrors of documentary evidence like the item below, presented by the wonderfully multi-named Hilda Edith Frances Margaret Quarry. CW for domestic violence and abuse. One of her last letters in this trove of evidence reads: "You would have been a better man to have gone to fight in 1914 and I am sorry now I stopped you, but in those days I hoped against hope for some happiness with you." In a later response that feels like it belongs in a "How to Gaslight Someone" manual, Franc...