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Uncommon Arrangements : : Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939

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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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Dial Press, 2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 343 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385339377 (hardcover)
0385339372 (hardcover)

SUBJECTS
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Relations with women.
Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Relations with men.
Marriage.