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The title story and “Marriage Lines” are beautiful, elegiac tales about how marriages endure or change over time: stories that attest to the new emotional depth Mr. Barnes discovered in his 2004 collection “The Lemon Table.”
Marriage also played a key role in strengthening the social and financial position of families. For example, Lady Catherine de Bourgh wants to marry her daughter to her nephew Darcy to solidify both families’ power. [24] Miss Bingley hopes her brother will marry Georgiana Darcy, aiming to improve the Bingleys' social standing.
Archdeacon Brabazon: A friend of Miss Temple who tells Miss Marple that he had agreed to officiate at the secret marriage of Michael and Verity. That is an unusual procedure for him, a secret marriage, but he judged them to be truly in love with each other. Joanna Crawford: Young woman on the tour with her aunt. Emlyn Price: Young man on the tour.
In England, a prerequisite of Christian marriage is the "reading of the banns"—for any three Sundays in the three months prior to the intended date of the ceremony, the names of every couple intending marriage has to be read aloud by the priest(s) of their parish(es) of residence, or the posting of a 'Notice of Intent to Marry' in the registry office for civil ceremonies.
Despite the disastrous consequences of her sister Katherine's secret marriage, Mary also married without the Queen's permission. [9] On 16 July 1565, [10] while the Queen was absent attending the marriage of her kinsman, Sir Henry Knollys [11] (d. 21 December 1582), and Margaret Cave, the daughter of Sir Ambrose Cave, [12] Mary secretly married the Queen's sergeant porter, Thomas Keyes, son of ...
Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published on 26 May 1862. [1] It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels". [ 1 ]
Book I: After an introductory analysis of "What love is" (Parry, pp. 28–36), Book One of De Amore sets out a series of nine imaginary dialogues (pp. 36–141) between men and women of different social classes, from bourgeoisie to royalty. In each dialogue the man is pleading inconclusively to be accepted as the woman's lover, and in each he ...
Married Love or Love in Marriage is a book by British academic Marie Stopes. It was one of the first books openly to discuss birth control. The book begins by stating that "More than ever to-day are happy homes needed. It is my hope that this book may serve the State by adding to their number.