Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
Five literary marriages seen from the wife's side, and most of the husbands come off badly.
Carmela Ciuraru examines the marriages of Elizabeth Jane Howard and Kingsley Amis, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl, and three others, where a talented woman’s career was subordinated to a difficult man’s. It is gossip in the good sense, well sourced and frequently appalling about the domestic arrangements of celebrated writers.
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Tyler Cowen
Carmela Ciuraru, Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages. I hadn’t even known Patricia Neal was married to Roald Dahl. Overall I enjoy intellectual/romance gossip books, and this is a good one. Full of actual facts about the writings, not just the affairs and the marriages and divorces.
Source · March 2023
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