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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.
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.
Often cited as Collins's first didactic work, Man and Wife attacks both Irish and Scottish marriage laws as well as arguing the case for a Married Woman's Property Act. The book also campaigns against the cult of athleticism, as leading to moral and physical corruption, personified in the villain, Geoffrey Delamayn.
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.
Man and Wife examines the plight of a woman who, promised marriage by one man, comes to believe that she may inadvertently have gone through a form of marriage with his friend, as recognized by the archaic laws of Scotland and Ireland.
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.
Man and Wife is an 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins, aimed at highlighting injustices in the marriage law of the time. Anne Silvester is Blanche Lundie's …
