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

Title
Uncommon arrangements : seven portraits of married life in London literary circles, 1910-1939

Author
Roiphe, Katie.

ISBN
9780385339377

Personal Author
Roiphe, Katie.

Publication Information
New York : Dial Press, c2007.

Physical Description
343 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

General Note
Includes index.

Contents
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.

Abstract
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.

Subject Term
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
 
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Relations with women.
 
Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Relations with men.
 
Marriage.
 
Man-woman relationships.


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