“It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.”

Cultural and Religious Heritage of India: Islam http://books.google.co.in/books?id=e2yvoujPJCYC&pg=PA109, p. 109

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British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, wr… 1847–1933

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