When Lytton Strachey was asked to propose a toast to his Eminent Victorians, he quoted an eminent Victorian biographer: “When I hear men called ‘judicious’ I suspect them; but when I hear them called ...
What can Vanessa and Clive Bell, or H.G. and Jane Wells teach us about marriage? Lots, says Katie Roiphe in Uncommon Arrangements. Your book focuses on seven married couples in the 1910s and ’20s. Why ...
“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.” George Eliot wrote those sentences in her 1872 masterpiece, Middlemarch, an examination of marriage ...
Precursor to the Victorian age : the concept of marriage and family as revealed in the correspondence of the Izard family of South Carolina / Wylma Wates -- Family and female identity in the ...
Mary Ellen Meredith, 1858, by Henry Wallis. (Ashmolean Museum / Heritage Images / Getty Images) In her introduction to the 1972 biography The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser ...
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