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even though divorcing Richard evidently meant losing both her daughter and

her own birth family. Either way, Joan’s case highlights one of the difficulties

facing us as historians, for we often depend, sometimes unconsciously, upon

our assumptions about rational strategies of social negotiation to make

narrative connections between the scattered bits of evidence out of which we

 write our history. The end of Joan’s life, as far as I know, is not documented,

leaving us only with speculative imaginings. It is hard to imagine, however,

that her days ended happily.