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 ...
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 ...