Word: wifehood
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Meanwhile the "High Church" Episcopalian weekly, the Living Church gleefully cried: "Give us, good Rota, some nice Latin words to use for a husband whose husbandship you have removed, and a wife upon whose wifehood you have trampled, for a marriage whose holy, sacramental character you have spurned and for a relationship to children which you have degraded unfathomably. . . . How can one be sure he is married? Marriage standards in Rome and Soviet Russia appear to be ap proaching a common plane...
...editor, one "E. R. P.", has headed each entry with" a quotation therefrom. One of these quotations appears .twice, being the thought most prominent in the lady's mind: "It is motherhood, not wifehood, that matters." She was an early feminist, having determined upon motherhood and compacted "earnestly" with her lover, a Baron, who drowned returning from Paris in 1763. "Let every woman be a mistress," she wrote, and projected a book on this theme, setting forth the naturalness of parenthood, the superiority of "naturals," the state's duty and the end of bawdry through free love...
...Author, Charles Gilman Norris, a Chicago merchant's son, was brought up in acquiescent eclipse. His "beautiful and restless and ambitious and fiery" mother, denied a stage career by wifehood, centred her hopes in her oldest son, the late Frank Norris (author of The Octopus, The Pit, etc.) Charles, youngest of six, got and sought no encouragement for "his little old solitary dreams" and his school and college writings. His rapid romance and marriage with Kathleen Thompson (author of Mother, The Heart of Rachael, Beloved Woman, Little Ships, The Black Flemings, etc.) are said to have rekindled his literary ambition...
...recognize much mother wit among the refuse, a native tang in the bawdy breeze. The story: the leggy daughter of a long line of muddling-through country gentlemen embraces higher education, marries an elfish gentleman of traditions and talents, sees him off to the wars, straddles those jealous nags wifehood, motherhood and career, and comes a cropper...