...Robert F. Durden The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln . By Randall Ruth Painter . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1957 . Pp. xiv , 219 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 411 from periodical publications of Queen Anne s time, including reports...

...M. E. Bradford Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Faulkner s A Courtship : An Accommodation of Cultures M. E. Bradford Some of William Faulkner s finest short stories (to say nothing of sec­ tions in several of his novels) are concerned with the native American inhabitants of his...

... increasingly on the values in courtship and the problems of marital coexistence, and second, the marital subject matter began to affect the nature of the comedies: it helped turn the theater from satiric comedy to a more compassionate, less ironic view of life, and it shifted playwrights like George Farquhar...

... of courtship and marriage, in fact, below the surface, they call into question the whole system of sexual relationships in nineteenthcentury England. There was, of course, no such thing as a Victorian sexual system. Like many generalizations, that offered by our three authors is partly true, partly false...

..., wife of the friend and leading minister of the young King. In the interval Lady Mary acquired a wealthy husband after a curious courtship, cultivated the friend­ ship of literary figures such as Pope and Fielding, and permitted herself to be fascinated by Count Francesco Algarotti, which led her...

.... Her memoirs, which cover an important period of Tolstoi s development, his courtship and marriage and his work on his monumental novel War and Peace, have now been published for the first time in English as part of the translating project of the American Council of Learned Societies. The reader...

... romance with Nancy Hanks rests on an entirely different foundation from the story of his courtship with Floride Colhoun. The specialist in South Carolina and Southern history will be surprised to see that an impressively large bibliography, containing well over three hundred books and articles, omits...

... por­ trait of a gay, courageous, generous, very wise wife, mother, friend, and citizen. Abby Aldrich was the daughter of Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island. In her twenty-seventh year she became the wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., after a long and cautious courtship during which he was earnestly...

... is to examine with equal thoroughness and sympathetic skill the later portion of Melville s life his courtship and marriage, his years as a gentleman farmer in Pittsfield, his long stint as a customs inspector in New York City. Until this has been done, we still fall short of a sufficient understanding of both...

... only from the periphery through infrequent but poignant glimpses. Of visits to and from relatives and friends, of knitting and sewing, of reading novels, of writing, of editors and publishers, of church-going, of schooling, of the hardships and pleasures of travel, of courtships, flirtations, marriages...

... of travel, of courtships, flirtations, marriages, sickness, and death, of the weather, there is more than enough to obtain a clear pic­ ture of everyday living. Aside from this picture of the social and cul­ tural life in her own neighborhood and descriptions of journeys to Geor­ gia and the mountainous up...

... drawn an unforgettable por­ trait of a gay, courageous, generous, very wise wife, mother, friend, and citizen. Abby Aldrich was the daughter of Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island. In her twenty-seventh year she became the wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., after a long and cautious courtship during...

... readers that the items re­ printed were addressed to an audience of a type that had come into existence since the middle of the seventeenth century and did not sur­ vive much beyond the middle of the eighteenth. w. T. l. The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln. By Ruth Painter Randall. Boston: Little, Brown...

... to participate in the success of her daughter, Lady Bute, wife of the friend and leading minister of the young King. In the interval Lady Mary acquired a wealthy husband after a curious courtship, cultivated the friend­ ship of literary figures such as Pope and Fielding, and permitted herself to be fascinated...

... a curious courtship, cultivated the friend­ ship of literary figures such as Pope and Fielding, and permitted herself to be fascinated by Count Francesco Algarotti, which led her to a fantastic period of residence on the Continent. This book pieces together the story of Lady Mary s life. To place...

... of the eighteenth. w. T. l. The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln. By Ruth Painter Randall. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. Pp. xiv, 219. $3-75- Wisely following the maxim that a rich vein deserves thorough mining, Mrs. Randall now borrows from her earlier and longer biographi­ cal study of Mary Todd Lincoln...

... question of a New Orleans romance, the friendship with Peter Doyle, Washington streetcar conductor, and what can only be called the courtship of the poet by the warmhearted Englishwoman, Anne Gilchrist. Professor Holloway s interpretation of Whitman s temperament, a subject that has given rise to a great...

... died. Her memoirs, which cover an important period of Tolstoi s development, his courtship and marriage and his work on his monumental novel War and Peace, have now been published for the first time in English as part of the translating project of the American Council of Learned Societies. The reader...

... of the book contains a vast amount of anecdotal evidence about courtship and marriage patterns, pervasive misogyny, the basic dif­ ference between dowry and nondowry countries, Victorian reticence, house­ hold management, the distribution of power in marriage, the nature of sexual relationships...

... and sympathetic skill the later portion of Melville s life his courtship and marriage, his years as a gentleman farmer in Pittsfield, his long stint as a customs inspector in New York City. Until this has been done, we still fall short of a sufficient understanding of both man and artist. tyrus hillway The Tudor...