When the man's wife discovers that Jemima is pregnant with his child, she is thrown out of the house.
She was therefore forced to become a servant in her father's house and later bound out as an apprentice to a master who beat her, starved her, and raped her. Jemima's mother died while she was still an infant, making her already precarious social position worse. Darnford reveals that he has had a debauched life waking up in the asylum after a night of heavy drinking, he has been unable to convince the doctors to release him.Jemima tells her life story to Maria and Darnford, explaining that she was born a bastard. The two begin to communicate and eventually meet. Some of these have notes scribbled in them by Henry Darnford, another inmate, and Maria falls in love with him via his marginalia. She manages to befriend one of her attendants in the asylum, an impoverished, lower-class woman named Jemima, who, after realizing that Maria is not mad, agrees to bring her a few books. Not only has he condemned Maria to live in an insane asylum, but he has also taken their child away from her. The Wrongs of Woman begins in medias res with the upper-class Maria's unjust imprisonment by her husband, George Venables.
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