Mooney, Bel; Jonathan Dimbleby;
The Vintage Book of Marriage [was: From This Day Forward]
Vintage, 1989/2000, 384 pages
ISBN 0099283239, 9780099283232
topics: | marriage | social | lit | anthology
from Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791. [p.1236]. JOHNSON: "... between a man and his wife, a husband's infidelity is nothing. They are connected by children, by fortune, by serious considerations of community. Wise married women don't trouble themselves about the infidelity in their husbands." BOSWELL. "To be sure there is a great difference between the offence of infidelity in a man and that of his wife." JOHNSON. "The difference is boundless. The man imposes no bastards upon his wife"
The table of contents reads almost like a script for married life. Questions 7 Proposals 48 Nuptials 104 Domesticity 152 Complications 189 Accommodations 224 Celebrations 266 Reverberations 308