
Unconventional Wife
Beschreibung
The page-turning biography of an Australian woman who refused to bend to the expectations of her husband and her time.
Julia Sorell was an original. A colonial belle from Tasmania, vivacious and warm-hearted, Julia's marriage to Tom Arnold in 1850 propelled her into one of the most renowned families in England and into a circle that included Lewis Carroll and George Eliot. Her eldest daughter became a bestselling novelist, while her grandchildren included the writer Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, and the evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley.
With these family connections, Julia is a presence in many documented and famous lives, but she is a mostly silent presence. When extracted from her background of colonial life, extracted from the covers of marriage and family life, her story reveals an extraordinary woman, a paradox who defied convention as much as she embraced it.
What began as a marriage born of desire soon turned into a relationship riven by discord. Tom's sudden decision to become a Catholic and Julia's refusal to convert with him plunged their lives into a crisis wherein their great love for each other would be pitted against their profoundly different understandings of marriage and religion. It was a conflict that would play out over three decades in a time when science challenged religion, when industrialisation challenged agrarian forms, when democracy challenged aristocracy, when women began to challenge men. It was a conflict that would shape not only their own lives and that of their children, but also touch the lives of all those who came into contact with them.
Told with the pace, depth, and psychological richness of a great novel, An Unconventional Wife is a riveting biography that shines a shaft of light on a hidden but captivating life.
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Person
Mary Hoban is a Melbourne-based writer and historian. Her first book was a history of Melbourne's celebrated Queen Victoria Market. She has also authored, co-authored, and edited various textbooks, papers, and journal articles on Australian and Asian history and cultural studies. For some years she was employed in the philatelic section of Australia Post as a writer, editor, and researcher for the nation's postage stamps, where she wrote and edited books on subjects ranging from Christmas Island to the Antarctic, from royalty to rugby. She holds a graduate diploma in biography and life writing from Monash University and an MA in public history from the University of Technology, Sydney. In 2012 she was awarded the inaugural Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship to write the biography of Julia Sorell Arnold.
Inhalt
- Intro
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- The Family of Julia Sorell Arnold
- The Family of Thomas Arnold the Younger
- 1 A Tumultuous Inheritance
- 2 Entering Society
- 3 A Colonial Belle
- 4 An Unusual Man
- 5 Finding Love
- 6 A Woman's Destiny
- 7 An Impossible Choice
- 8 Between Two Worlds
- 9 Facing Reality
- 10 A New Beginning
- 11 Adrift
- 12 A Dark World
- 13 Returning to the Fold
- 14 A Landscape of Desire
- 15 Coming Adrift
- 16 Into the Abyss
- 17 Separate Lives
- 18 A Revolutionary Wife
- 19 Disintegration
- 20 Aftermath
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Chapter Notes
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