Marriage

by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Editor)

A collection of writing from the literature of marriage. Marriage : Many people have tried it, longed for it, or carefully avoided it, and most of us are the result of it. instituted by God, upheld by Church and state, reviled by feminists, the fragile idea of human love, marriage is the single most challenging relationship any of us attempt in our lives, and one in which increasing numbers of us fail. Elizabeth Jane Howard has chosen extracts from novels, short stories, letters and poems to illustrate marriage's many temperaturesand moods, it's swings from despair to rapture.

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE, was an English novelist. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, a four novel family saga (i.e., The Cazalet Chronicles) set in wartime Britain. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by Cinema Verity for BBC television as The Cazalets (The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion and Casting Off). She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies.

Her last novel in The Cazalet Chronicles series, "ALL CHANGE", was published in November 2013.