Uncommon arrangements : seven portraits of married life in London literary circles, 1910-1939 / Katie Roiphe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roiphe, Katie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Women authors, English.

Relations with men.

Relations with women.

Authors, English--20th century--Relations with women.

Women authors, English--20th century--Relations with men.

Marriage.

Man-woman relationships.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dial Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780385339377

0385339372

OCLC:

144956457