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Man and Wife is Wilkie Collins's ninth published novel, first published in 1870. It is a sensation novel, and the second of his novels (after No Name) in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot.
PLOT SUMMARY. From the 1875 Chatto & Windus Piccadilly Novels. In 1855, a clever young lawyer called Delamayn finds a loophole in the Irish marriage laws which enables John Vanborough to annul the marriage that stands in the way of his parliamentary ambitions.
22 lut 2006 · "Man and Wife" by Wilkie Collins is a novel set in the mid-19th century that explores themes such as love, betrayal, and the complexities of marriage. The story hinges on the lives of its central characters, Mr. Vanborough and Anne Silvester, revealing the struggles they face due to societal constraints and personal decisions.
21 lut 2006 · In three months from the memorable day when his solicitor had informed him that he was a free man, Mr. Vanborough possessed the wife he desired, to grace the head of his table and to push his fortunes in the world—the Legislature of Great Britain being the humble servant of his treachery, and the respectable accomplice of his crime.
Man and Wife may refer to: Man and Wife (novel), an 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins. Man and Wife (film), a 1923 American silent film. Man and Wife, a 2003 novel by Tony Parsons. Man and Wife, a 1976 poem by Robert Lowell.
After the success of his four great novels of the 1860s (The Woman in White, Armadale, No Name, The Moonstone), Wilkie Collins wrote Man and Wife. Here, Collins melded the sensation novel form with a critique of Victorian society: specifically, its inequitable marriage laws and the rights and legal status of women.
tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links. Man and Wife (1870) was one of the novels in which Wilkie Collins undertook to expose social injustice – in this case the absurdities which existed in British marriage laws. It was his ninth published novel.
