Uncommon arrangements : seven portraits of married life in London literary circles, 1910-1939 /
Roiphe, Katie.
Uncommon arrangements : seven portraits of married life in London literary circles, 1910-1939 / Katie Roiphe. - New York : Dial Press, 2007. - 343 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Marriage à la Mode -- H.G. & Jane Wells -- Katherine Mansfield & John Middleton Murry -- Elizabeth Von Arnim & John Francis Russell -- Vanessa & Clive Bell -- Ottoline & Philip Morrell -- Radclyffe Hall & Una Troubridge -- Vera Brittain & George Gordon Catlin -- Postscript.
Cultural critic Roiphe delves deeply into one of the most layered of subjects: marriage. Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary community from 1910 to the Second World War, here are seven "marriages à la mode"--each rising to the challenge of intimate relations in more or less creative ways: H.G. and Jane Wells; Katherine Mansfield; Vera Brittain and George Gordon Catlin; Vanessa and Clive Bell; and Vanessa's sister Virginia Woolf, herself no stranger to marital particularities, who sustained a brilliant running commentary on the most intimate details of those around her. Every chapter revolves around a crisis that occurred in each of these marriages, and how it was resolved--or not. In these portraits, Roiphe evokes "the fluctuations and shifts in attraction, the mysteries of lasting affection, the endurance and changes in love, and the role of friendship in marriage."--From publisher description.
0385339372 (hardcover) 9780385339377 (hardcover)
2007011798
Authors, English--20th century--Biography.
Authors, English--Relations with women.--20th century
Man-woman relationships.
Marriage.
Women authors, English--Relations with men.--20th century
Uncommon arrangements : seven portraits of married life in London literary circles, 1910-1939 / Katie Roiphe. - New York : Dial Press, 2007. - 343 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Marriage à la Mode -- H.G. & Jane Wells -- Katherine Mansfield & John Middleton Murry -- Elizabeth Von Arnim & John Francis Russell -- Vanessa & Clive Bell -- Ottoline & Philip Morrell -- Radclyffe Hall & Una Troubridge -- Vera Brittain & George Gordon Catlin -- Postscript.
Cultural critic Roiphe delves deeply into one of the most layered of subjects: marriage. Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary community from 1910 to the Second World War, here are seven "marriages à la mode"--each rising to the challenge of intimate relations in more or less creative ways: H.G. and Jane Wells; Katherine Mansfield; Vera Brittain and George Gordon Catlin; Vanessa and Clive Bell; and Vanessa's sister Virginia Woolf, herself no stranger to marital particularities, who sustained a brilliant running commentary on the most intimate details of those around her. Every chapter revolves around a crisis that occurred in each of these marriages, and how it was resolved--or not. In these portraits, Roiphe evokes "the fluctuations and shifts in attraction, the mysteries of lasting affection, the endurance and changes in love, and the role of friendship in marriage."--From publisher description.
0385339372 (hardcover) 9780385339377 (hardcover)
2007011798
Authors, English--20th century--Biography.
Authors, English--Relations with women.--20th century
Man-woman relationships.
Marriage.
Women authors, English--Relations with men.--20th century