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...Herman Nibbelink Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Thoreau and Wendell Berry: Bachelor and Husband of Nature Herman Nibbelink Wendell Berry s agrarian fiction, poetry, and essays twenty-eight volumes thus far counter the drift of American literature away from a considera­ tion...

... paradigm-shifting work has the potential to provide a critical opening for this discussion to take place. Like their husbands, fathers, and brothers, enslaved women who engaged the crisis of the Union as an opportunity to secure their freedom risked as much. The Emancipation Proclamation opened...

... with her husband Fredy, a writer and printer, when they lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and first began publishing the magazine Black and Red , which would later become the name of their press, Black and Red. Danielle Aubert, a graphic designer, describes how Fredy Perlman’s anti-capitalist approach to craft...

... much, they doze you, and make you unfit for Company; but if us d discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em to wine, to country retreats ( not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away Marriage, on the other hand, is recognizable by the husband s grumness of counte­ nance...

.... The husband is bound to bear with the wife, as being the weaker vessel; and shall we think God will exempt himself from his own rule, and not bear with his weak spouse? Bulkeley put the case just as appealingly when he said that with the Christian and his God it was as it is betweene man and wife, though...

... novel and started at least one short story,4 and these abortive creative efforts may have stemmed from her sense that she was, in a way, the missing person in her husband s life. Judith Wittenberg goes so far as to designate Estelle William s twin, and the biographer calls attention to the way...

... duty of the wife was obedience, which was re­ quired of her, both because she promised it in her marriage vow and because subjection was the punishment laid upon all wives by the first woman s disobedience. In addition to sub­ mitting to the will of her husband, she was admonished to guard his...

... boots of felt, of leather, or of wood. Perhaps they are barefoot. At every work center in Russia we prisoners were constantly meeting these Russian women. Where is your child; where is your husband? we used to ask. The answer always was: My children are in kinder­ garten, or in the factory nursery...

...R. H. Woody Letters from Lee’s Army, or Memoirs of Life in and out of the Army in Virginia during the War between the States . Compiled by Blackford Susan Leigh , annotated by her husband Blackford Charles Minor , edited and abridged by Blackford Charles Minor III . New York...

... parents Aaron Burr was not guilty of such laxness. In 1791 Mrs. Burr reported to her husband, Theo . . . writes and ciphers from five in the morning to eight, and also the same hours in the evening. 2 In the course of the next ten years, the girl s regimen of study grew to include writing, arithmetic...

... and was educated by European tutors. At the age of twentythree she married Edward Wharton, a member of a distinguished Philadelphia family, a man who was twelve years her senior. Un­ fortunately her husband was not the sensitive literary type that Mrs. Wharton was; instead he preferred an outdoor life. Conse­...

..., when it was blended with the blood lines of other families. Were not blood lines as likely to blend when a Randolph man took a wife as they were when a Randolph woman lost her name while taking a husband? And what does one learn from the concluding generalization in the book, that the Randolphs...

... married a man who kept a journal. Her husband, David Harris, started his journal in 1855 to keep an accurate record of his farm work so he could eventually learn the very best time and method for under­ taking his various tasks. With his wife, Emily Jane Lyles, his many children, and his ten slaves, he...

... husband s will when it comes to giving up her children. She shows no signs of resentment or grief, but appears to remain a devoted and loving wife. Trial number three attacks this uxorial status directly. It involves Walter s claim that his subjects resentment of Griseldis s low birth obliges him...

... the return be a married man with a wife living with him, or plus the sum of $1,000 additional if the person making the return be a married woman with a husband living with her; but in no event shall this additional exemption of $1,000 be deducted by both a husband and a wife: Provided, That only one...

..., and did not return to Cheyne Row again until the following September then, however, most inopportunely, just after Mrs. Carlyle had gotten the house cleaned and remodelled for the reception of her husband, due home shortly from his long summer outing in Scotland and Wales. To her husband she writes...

... married couple, compatriots of his. The hus­ band, a dwarf all morbid intellect, has green eyes, whereas the wife s eyes are blue. Owing to this difference, the wife proves unfaithful. The husband, tortured by the frenzy of hallucination, stabs her to death in a fit of logic, and hangs himself. Apart...

... that they learn that than all the mathematics they re forced to learn in school. What do poor folks have that much of that they have to learn to count any­ way? When her husband was alive, Sarah Keller augmented the family s income by working thirty hours a week in the kitchen of a downtown bakery shop. Upon his...

... and Sir Claude Mulhammer, or live together without love and understanding as do Lady Amy Monchensey and her husband and Lord Claverton and his wife. In all these matrimonial ventures there is at best a dogged tolerance of the chilly pretences in the silent bedroom. That adultery occurs is perhaps hardly...

... for a determined assault on institutions which relegated them to a servile status. As early as 1776, Abigail Adams had implored her husband to re­ member the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. 1 In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, the English feminist, had elaborated the historic...