Diabolical Duets. Diabolical Duets, #6

Duet-Six in the "Diabolical Duets" collection brings us two tales of men who find themselves helpless before the "Diabolical" female. We open with Wilson Henshaw's "The Toe-Ring", as we go back to the beginning of the 19th Century where a deceased former suffragette and emancipated aunt's bequest to her married niece of an Indian woman as her paid housekeeper has a dramatic and long-lasting effect upon everybody in the patriarchal and orderly run household.
But especially for the correct and stuffy husband. A husband suddenly marginalised, disregarded, and strangely obsessed with the new housekeeper's. FEET! Following this is Ezra Bedford's "The Position", and the tale of an unjustly disgraced man. A man recently released from prison after a crime of embezzlement who applies in his desperation for the position of a live-in secretary at an affluent London Home after reading a most curious advertisement.
A reading and an application that will change his life and prove more curious than he thought when the man he thinks will be employing him turns out to be a woman. A woman with a monstrous West Indian housekeeper who shares views on the subject of men that are NOT warm and cuddly! 2-Believable and fantasy female-led tales of an early kind of feminism and human and occult bondage - in the style of the early 20th Century masters of the genre - for the reader who enjoys having the imagination tweaked rather than bludgeoned.