Download or read book Victorian Short Stories written by Walter Besant et al and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case by Rudyard Kipling, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Morrison, Arthur Conan Doyle, and George Gissing: This collection of short stories explores the complexities of marriage and relationships in Victorian England. Featuring works by some of the era's most influential writers, including Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle, the stories capture the tensions and struggles of couples in a society that placed strict expectations and limitations on women. Key Aspects of the Book "Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case": Marriage and Gender: The stories highlight the gendered expectations and limitations that shaped marriage and relationships in Victorian England. Psychology and Emotion: The stories delve into the complex psychology and emotional struggles of couples facing difficulties in their relationships. Literary Significance: The collection features works by some of the most important writers of the Victorian era, providing valuable insights into the literary and cultural currents of the time. Rudyard Kipling, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Morrison, Arthur Conan Doyle, and George Gissing were all influential writers of the Victorian era, known for their contributions to literature and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case, a collection of short stories focused on troubled marriages and relationships, highlights the cultural and social forces that shaped Victorian attitudes toward love, marriage, and gender.
Download or read book Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages,' readers are invited to explore the multifaceted world of Victorian England through the lens of matrimonial discord, a subject that pierced the heart of the era's societal norms and values. This anthology showcases a remarkable diversity of literary styles, from the detective fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle to the introspective realism of George Gissing, highlighting the thematic richness and depth of the Victorian literary landscape. Through tales of love, loss, betrayal, and redemption, the collection offers a nuanced examination of the complexities surrounding Victorian marriages, making it an essential compilation for understanding the era's cultural and social dynamics. The contributing authors, heralded figures of Victorian literature, bring a wealth of perspectives and insights into the societal constraints and personal struggles that characterized troubled marriages of their time. Arthur Morrison and Ella D'Arcy, alongside their peers, lend their voices to a period rife with change, capturing the essence of the shifting attitudes towards marriage, gender roles, and personal freedom. Collectively, they underscore the literary movements of realism and naturalism, chronicling the human condition with profound sensitivity and depth. 'Reading 'Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages' offers an unparalleled opportunity to dive into the complex world of Victorian society and its reflections on marital relationships. For scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Victorian literature and history, this collection presents a curated journey through the varied narrative landscapes forged by some of the era's most influential writers. It is an invitation to explore the intersections of love, law, and liberty in a time of great social upheaval and transformation, making it a valuable resource for understanding the past and its echoes in our present and future.
Download or read book Victorian Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems unlikely that there could be any subject to have preoccupied writers throughout the ages more than the pursuit of love. This may have reached an all time high in the Victorian era when a new age of romanticism captured hearts and minds. However, whilst love might have been the ultimate quest there were numerous practical formalities that preceded it and after the immensely complicated and ritualised courtship, a good match was of paramount importance for both men and women. Women were on average in their early twenties when they married and by the age of 30 were ill considered as a good match and were very much 'on the shelf'. Once married, a man had total ownership and control over all physical property and income that belonged to his wife. She not only lost the little independence that had previously been afforded her but was now the domestic servant of her husband, responsible in ensuring that every aspect of the house from food to kids ran smoothly and caused no trouble to her husband. Divorce was only available to the extremely wealthy until 1857 so for a woman the man she married determined her life whilst the married man always had options. This series of short stories wonderfully captures the Victorian world of matrimony with gems from Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and many more.
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Download or read book Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages EasyRead Large Edition written by ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages (1884-1898) is a collection of short stories by different authors. These are stories about annoying spouses, infidelity, fraud, and other things that poison the joys of matrimony. Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the contributors towards this alluring masterpiece of collected stories. The work includes The Bronckhorst Divorce Case and The Prize Lodger.
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Download or read book Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages Dodo Press written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895). Ella D'Arcy (1856-1939) was an author of novels and short stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her works are associated with the New fiction of the fin-de-sicle, characterized by an attitude of changing social attitudes, and psychological realism. Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English author and journalist, known for his realistic novels. Morrison wrote detective short stories. Three volumes of Martin Hewitt stories were published before the publication of his most famous novel A Child of the Jago (1896). Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction. George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Although his early works are naturalistic, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. Contents include The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case by Rudyard Kipling, Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy, A Poor Stick by Arthur Morrison, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange by Arthur Conan Doyle and The Prize Lodger by George Gissing.
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Download or read book Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages written by Ella DArcy and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strickland was about a hundred and eighty miles up the line. He had not long been married to Miss Youghal, but he scented in the telegram a chance of return to the old detective work that his soul lusted after, and next time he came in and heard our story. He finished his pipe and said oracularly, ‘We must get at the evidence. Oorya bearer, Mussulman khit and sweeper ayah, I suppose, are the pillars of the charge. I am on in this piece; but I’m afraid I’m getting rusty in my talk...FROM THE BOOKS.
Download or read book Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages The Bronckhorst Divorce Case written by Rudyard Kipling, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Morrison, Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronckhorst was not nice in any way. He had no respect for the pretty public and private lies that make life a little less nasty than it is. His manner towards his wife was coarse. There are many things—including actual assault with the clenched fist—that a wife will endure; but seldom a wife can bear—as Mrs. Bronckhorst bore—with a long course of brutal, hard chaff, making light of her weaknesses, her headaches, her small fits of gaiety, her dresses, her queer little attempts to make herself attractive to her husband when she knows that she is not what she has been, and—worst of all—the love that she spends on her children. That particular sort of heavy-handed jest was specially dear to Bronckhorst. I suppose that he had first slipped into it, meaning no harm, in the honeymoon, when folk find their ordinary stock of endearments run short, and so go to the other extreme to express their feelings. A similar impulse makes a man say, 'Hutt, you old beast!' when a favourite horse nuzzles his coat-front. Unluckily, when the reaction of marriage sets in, the form of speech remains, and, the tenderness having died out, hurts the wife more than she cares to say. But Mrs. Bronckhorst was devoted to her 'Teddy' as she called him. Perhaps that was why he objected to her. Perhaps—this is only a theory to account for his infamous behaviour later on—he gave way to the queer, savage feeling that sometimes takes by the throat a husband twenty years married, when he sees, across the table, the same, same face of his wedded wife, and knows that, as he has sat facing it, so must he continue to sit until the day of its death or his own. Most men and all women know the spasm. It only lasts for three breaths as a rule, must be a 'throw-back' to times when men and women were rather worse than they are now, and is too unpleasant to be discussed.
Download or read book VICTORIAN SHORT STORIES SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGES written by ELIZABETH GASKELL; THOMAS HARDY; HENRY JAMES. and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems unlikely that there could be any subject to have preoccupied writers throughout the ages more than the pursuit of love. This may have reached an all time high in the Victorian era when a new age of romanticism captured hearts and minds. However, whilst love might have been the ultimate quest there were numerous practical formalities that preceded it and after the immensely complicated and ritualised courtship, a good match was of paramount importance for both men and women. Women were on average in their early twenties when they married and by the age of 30 were ill considered as a good match and were very much 'on the shelf'. Once married, a man had total ownership and control over all physical property and income that belonged to his wife. She not only lost the little independence that had previously been afforded her but was now the domestic servant of her husband, responsible in ensuring that every aspect of the house from food to kids ran smoothly and caused no trouble to her husband. Divorce was only available to the extremely wealthy until 1857 so for a woman the man she married determined her life whilst the married man always had options. This series of short stories wonderfully captures the Victorian world of matrimony with gems from Elizabeth Gaskell, who with strong characterisation portrays tragedy but in a successful middle class marriage, Thomas Hardy and many more.
Download or read book Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An educational and enjoyable collection of short stories by some of Victorian well-known authors: The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case by Rudyard Kipling Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy A Poor Stick by Arthur Morrison The Adventure of the Abbey Grange by Arthur Conan Doyle The Prize Lodger by George Gissing
Download or read book Victorian Short Stories written by Elizabeth Gaskell Et Al and published by . This book was released on 1920-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS The Manchester Marriage By Elizabeth Gaskell A Mere Interlude By Thomas Hardy A Faithful Heart By George Moore The Solid Gold Reef Company, Limited By Walter Besant The Tree of Knowledge By Henry James
Download or read book VICTORIAN SHORT STORIES OF TROUBLED MARRIAGES written by RUDYARD. D'ARCY KIPLING (ELLA. ET AL.) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Phyllis Rose and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1984-10-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot--née Marian Evans.
Download or read book Wife in Name Only written by Charlotte Mary Brame and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I cannot say that I am sorry," he continued, "for I love my wife very dearly; but I do wish now that I had been less hurried, less precipitate. My wife's great loveliness must be my excuse. She is the daughter of a poor curate, the Reverend Charles Trevor, who came two years ago to supply temporarily the place of the Rector of Lynton. He brought his daughter with him; and the first moment I saw her I fell in love with her. My heart seemed to go out from me and cleave to her. I loved her with what I can see now was the selfish ardor of a young man. I had but one thought--to win her. I wrote to my father, who was in Italy, and asked his consent. He refused it in the most decided manner, and told me to think no more of what after all was but a boy's fancy. He was then staying near the Lake of Como--staying for the benefit of his health--and I went over to see him. I pleaded, prayed, urged my great love--all in vain. The earl, my father, only laughed at me, and said all young men suffered from the fever called love. I came back to England, and found that Mr. Trevor was dead. Madaline, his daughter, was left alone in the world. She raised her beautiful face to mine, poor child, and tried to smile while she talked of going out into the world and of working hard for her daily bread; and, as I listened, my love seemed to grow stronger and deeper. I caught her in my arms, and swore that nothing should part us--that, come what would, she must be my wife. She was very unwilling--not that she did not love me, but because she was afraid of making my father angry; that was her great objection. She knew my love for him and his affection for me. She would not come between us. It was in vain that I prayed her to do as I wished. After a time she consented to a compromise--to marry me without my father's knowledge. It was a folly, I own; now I see clearly its imprudence--then I imagined it the safest and surest way. I persuaded her, as I had persuaded myself, that, when my father once knew that we were married, he would forgive us, and all would go well. We were married eleven mouths since, and I have been so happy since then that it has seemed to me but a single day. My beautiful young wife was frightened at the bold step we had taken, but I soothed her. I did not take her home to Wood Lynton, but, laying aside all the trappings of wealth and title, we have traveled from place to place as Mr. and Mrs. Charlewood, enjoying our long honeymoon. If we liked any one particular spot we remained in it. But a letter from Italy came like a thunderbolt--my father had grown rapidly worse and wanted to see me at once. If I had been content to go at once, all would have been well. I could not endure that he should die without seeing, loving, and blessing my wife Madaline. I told her my desire, and she consented most cheerfully to accompany me. I ought to have known that--in her state of health--traveling was most injurious; but I was neglectful of the fact--I listened only to my heart's desire, that my father should see my wife before he died. We started on our fatal journey--only this morning. At first my wife seemed to enjoy it; and then I saw all the color fading from her sweet face. I saw her lips grow white and tremble, and I became alarmed. It was not until we reached Castledene that she gave in and told me she could go no further. Still you say there is no danger, and that you do not think she will die?"
Download or read book The Victorian and the Romantic written by Nell Stevens and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tale of two writers, Nell Stevens interweaves her own life as a twenty-something graduate student with that of the English author, Elizabeth Gaskell. Although they are separated by more than 150 years, Nell finds herself drawn to the Victorian novelist by their shared experiences of unrequited love—Gaskell for an American critic she met in Rome, Nell for a soulful American screenwriter living in Paris. As Nell’s romance founders and her passion for academia fails to materialize, she finds herself wondering if the indomitable Mrs. Gaskell might rescue her pursuit of love, family, and a writing career. Lively, witty, and impossible to put down, The Victorian and the Romantic is a moving chronicle of two women, each charting a way of life beyond the rules of her time.
