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1715: High Society: ‘The Winners Pleasure, and the Losers pain’ 1

Isobel Grundy

in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment

Since her marriage Lady Mary's day-to-day activities had been documented while she was away from her husband but mostly hidden while they were together. Only three of her letters to other people are ... More

Since her marriage Lady Mary's day-to-day activities had been documented while she was away from her husband but mostly hidden while they were together. Only three of her letters to other people are known to survive from her early married years. Her invisibility becomes most regrettable in the years 1715–16, spent in London. These saw a total eclipse of the sun, another great frost (with oxen roasting on the frozen Thames), mob unrest, a military encampment in Hyde Park (after the Jacobite Rebellion), and trials and executions. They saw Lady Mary's short-lived career as a courtier and the dawn of her fame as a writer. She had no idea she would be leaving for Turkey in 1716; she thought she was shaping a lifestyle to last the foreseeable future.Less

Dutiful Wives

Anya Jabour

in Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South

Young women who accepted a subordinate role in marriage were taking an important step toward accepting the inferior status assigned to elite women in the Old South during the nineteenth century. For ... More

Young women who accepted a subordinate role in marriage were taking an important step toward accepting the inferior status assigned to elite women in the Old South during the nineteenth century. For many southern women, the wedding day would prove to be a threshold between a culture of resistance and one of resignation, as well as a transition from the relative freedom of girlhood to the responsibilities of married life, from housekeeping to living where and how their husbands wished. This chapter examines the experience of many young wives in the antebellum South after an extended period of delaying, contemplating, and preparing for marriage. More specifically, it considers the tendency of young women in the Old South to resign themselves to their destiny as they entered the bonds of matrimony. The chapter focuses on the transformations experienced by Loula Kendall Rogers, an incurable romantic who lamented the exchange of sanctified love for “lard and sausages” in the rural Georgia home she shared with her husband. It also highlights the role of slave labor in southern housekeeping.Less

“Linking the Past With the Future”: Origins of the Postwar White Wedding

Karen M. Dunak

in As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America

This chapter traces the origins of the postwar white wedding and its evolution into a newly requisite style of wedding celebration. In particular, it examines the shift from a variety of wedding ... More

This chapter traces the origins of the postwar white wedding and its evolution into a newly requisite style of wedding celebration. In particular, it examines the shift from a variety of wedding forms, shaped by the diversity of the American population, to a single, recognizable celebration style in the years following World War II. It discusses the circumstances of World War II that influenced the world of postwar weddings and marriage and considers how the white wedding, despite industry claims of “tradition,” reflected a modern turn. It also explores how postwar brides and grooms demonstrated their commitment to modern visions of married life and civic belonging by following a national wedding model.Less

Marriage Hits Home

Sally L. Kitch

in Contested Terrain: Reflections with Afghan Women Leaders

This chapter investigates the particulars of Marzia's and Jamila's decisions to marry, the circumstances of their marriages, and the impact of their new status on their professional activities. It ... More

This chapter investigates the particulars of Marzia's and Jamila's decisions to marry, the circumstances of their marriages, and the impact of their new status on their professional activities. It was clear that marriage had changed their lives, bringing both joys and disappointments. Jamila's life was especially changed because she had produced two children in four years. Both women believed they had married worthy men and had used their knowledge of how marriage practices should work to affect how they would work in their own marriage arrangements. In their situations, it was also clear that region, economic capacity, education, and individual family practices affected their expectations of spouses and married life as well as their experiences as married professional Afghan women.Less

DOMESTIC LIFE —continued.

Edward William Lane and Jason Thompson

in An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians

This chapter details the process of marriage and engagement in Cairo among the upper classes and middle classes: how a bride is chosen, her dowry, the marriage contract, and celebrations and ... More

This chapter details the process of marriage and engagement in Cairo among the upper classes and middle classes: how a bride is chosen, her dowry, the marriage contract, and celebrations and ceremonies. It then moves onto married life, life in the hareem, the amount of liberty granted to women, and the use of female slaves, as well as looking at the day-to-day, such as diet, domestic chores, and childcare. It also discusses the practices of polygamy and divorce.Less

David Vogel: Married Life 1929

Glenda Abramson

in 1929: Mapping the Jewish World

This chapter offers a reading of Haye nisuim (Married Life), a 1929 novel by David Vogel in the Hebrew language and published in Palestine. Married Life exemplifies Vogel's “incorrigible ... More

This chapter offers a reading of Haye nisuim (Married Life), a 1929 novel by David Vogel in the Hebrew language and published in Palestine. Married Life exemplifies Vogel's “incorrigible Europeanness” while offering rare instances of a Jewish sensibility in his assimilated Jewish protagonist, a writer named Rudolf Gurdweill. One of the novel's most extraordinary features is Vogel's intricate mapping of Vienna's postwar landscape and his perception of the city's role in social and psychological breakdown. German place names proliferate in Married Life, increasing the novel's verfremdungseffekt and reinforcing the strangeness of its language and setting. Married Life ends with an inevitable tragedy and without any emotional purification or redemption.Less

| 1814 Love and Marriage

Dan C. Christensen

in Hans Christian Ørsted: Reading Nature's Mind

Ørsted's autobiographic poem on love is quoted and commented. Anders's and Sophie's married life and her relations with Baggesen and Sibbern are characterized. Birgitte Ballum urges Hans Christian to ... More

Ørsted's autobiographic poem on love is quoted and commented. Anders's and Sophie's married life and her relations with Baggesen and Sibbern are characterized. Birgitte Ballum urges Hans Christian to go to Roskilde to see his father who has fallen ill. As an early orphan aunt Engelke had cared for her, and for nearly a decade she had been looking after the pharmacist's family. Now Birgitte and Hans Christian are engaged to be married. Hans Christian calls her Gitte, while she calls him Ørsted. They are married in the Cathedral of Roskilde in May 1814 and settle down in a flat in Copenhagen. Gitte's persona is described by Sophie Ørsted, Madam Gyllembourg, and Sibbern. Ørsted's views on love and married life are compared to Lord Byron's.Less

“Henry Ford’s Model A”/“Married Life Blues”: Oscar Ford Columbia 15437-D

Tony Russell

in Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records

This chapter discusses Oscar Ford, “Henry Ford’s Model A”, “Married Life Blues”, topical songs, Henry Ford, Ku Klux Klan

Feminist Concerns: Charulata (The Lonely Wife, 1964, Dir. Satyajit Ray)

Omar Ahmed

in Studying Indian Cinema

This chapter surveys the career and legacy of Indian cinema's greatest film-maker, Satyajit Ray. If Raj Kapoor can be credited with popularising Indian cinema around the globe, then Satyajit Ray can ... More

This chapter surveys the career and legacy of Indian cinema's greatest film-maker, Satyajit Ray. If Raj Kapoor can be credited with popularising Indian cinema around the globe, then Satyajit Ray can certainly lay claim to bringing a measure of artistic credibility and sincerity to Indian cinema. Choosing a favourite Ray film was a tricky proposition given the consistency he maintained as a film-maker over four decades. He may have built his reputation on the Apu trilogy, winning major awards at film festivals, but his lifelong fascination with Bengali novelist Rabindranath Tagore provided the source material for some of his finest and most complex works. Charulata (The Lonely Wife, 1964) forms the focus for the chapter, which covers the Bengal renaissance, Satyajit Ray's status as an auteur, gender representations in the films of Ray, camera and narrative style, the relationships between the three central characters, political undercurrents, and the film's portrayal of married life in the Bengali middle class.Less

Pagan and Christian Sex Lives in the Roman Empire

Simon Swain

in Fame and Infamy: Essays on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography

It is well known that there was a strong emphasis on married life in the period of the early Roman Empire. Less attention has been paid to advice about types of sexual activity. Christians discussed ... More

It is well known that there was a strong emphasis on married life in the period of the early Roman Empire. Less attention has been paid to advice about types of sexual activity. Christians discussed this area of life as a way of exploring their new moral and religious codes and the chapter begins with evidence from the Letter of Barnabas and Clement of Alexandria on the ‘economy of sperm’ and their recommendations of the ‘missionary’ position over non-reproductive sex. Comparison is made with the views of contemporary pagan moralists. Consideration is then given to deviant sacramental practices among Gnostic Christian groups reported by Epiphanius which also attest to the focus on sperm in pagan writers. Finally some reasons are explored for parallels in moral thought between Christian and pagan views.Less

Introduction

Karen M. Dunak

in As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America

This book explores the evolution of the white wedding in the years since World War II and the possibilities it offered its celebrants. Criticized as outdated, rehearsed, and seemingly incapable of ... More

This book explores the evolution of the white wedding in the years since World War II and the possibilities it offered its celebrants. Criticized as outdated, rehearsed, and seemingly incapable of distinction or true personal meaning, the American wedding emerged as a single, recognizable celebration style. Postwar brides and grooms followed a national wedding model that reflected their commitment to modern visions of married life and civic belonging. This book considers the personal motivations of the celebrants who have contributed to the wedding's continued cultural power. It also examines how weddings became a medium for same-sex couples not only as public celebrations of private life but also as political demonstrations in their battle for marriage equality and for equal rights of citizenship and national belonging more generally.Less

Married Life

E. Douglas Bomberger

in MacDowell

This chapter describes Edward MacDowell's marriage to Marian Nevins on 21 July 1884. Two days after the wedding, the couple sailed to England for a brief honeymoon. They visited Exeter and Bath, and ... More

This chapter describes Edward MacDowell's marriage to Marian Nevins on 21 July 1884. Two days after the wedding, the couple sailed to England for a brief honeymoon. They visited Exeter and Bath, and then traveled to London, where the highlight was attending performances of Shakespeare. This blissful time awakened Edward's creativity, and the recollections of Marian and the evidence of a sketchbook from the period allow us to re-create his creative process. In the winter of 1884/85 Edward devoted himself to Marian and to composition. The first large-scale orchestral work that he completed was Hamlet and Ophelia, op. 22.Less