The Model Wife
The Model Wife

Author: Tricia Stringer

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1489270841

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Even a good woman can be pushed too far...From bestselling author Tricia Stringer, this beautifully realised multi-generational family story looks at what happens when real-life betrayals and struggling relationships clash with outdated ideas of what a woman should be. Natalie King's life is full. Some might say too full. With her teaching job, a farm to run, three grown daughters who have not quite got a handle on things, a reserved husband and a demanding mother-in-law, most days she is too busy to think about whether she is happy. But her life has meaning, doesn't it? After all, she is the one person everyone depends upon. But when an odd gift from her mother-in-law - an old book in the form of stern and outdated advice for young wives - surfaces again, it brings with it memories she thought she had buried deep. Has this insidious little book exerted some kind of hold over her? Could it be that in her attempts to be a loving wife and mother, she no longer knows who she is? On a day when it seems everyone is taking her for granted, and as the ghost of a past betrayal rises, it becomes clear that even this good mother and model wife can be pushed too far ...

The Model Wife
The Model Wife

Author: Arthur Ollman

Publisher: Bulfinch Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780821221709

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"With provocative photographs by some of the best-known photographers of the past century, The Model Wife is a striking and original book about the place where marriage and photography converge."--BOOK JACKET. "Friends, lovers, confidantes, collaborators - the multifaceted relationship between husband and wife takes on another dimension when the couple are also artist and muse. In The Model Wife, Arthur Ollman explores the imagery and photographic history of nine twentieth-century photographers who portrayed their wives over a period of years. He delves into issues of marriage itself and the powerful influences that such a partnership can have on artistic production. Comparisons between the couples and the resulting photographs enrich this discussion."--BOOK JACKET.

Effie
Effie

Author: Suzanne Fagence Cooper

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2011-06-21

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1429962380

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Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found herself trapped in a loveless, unconsummated union after Ruskin rejected her on their wedding night. On a trip to Scotland she met John Everett Millais, Ruskin's protégé, and fell passionately in love with him. In a daring act, Effie left Ruskin, had their marriage annulled and entered into a long, happy marriage with Millais. Suzanne Fagence Cooper has gained exclusive access to Effie's previously unseen letters and diaries to tell the complete story of this scandalous love triangle. In Cooper's hands, this passionate love story also becomes an important new look at the work of both Ruskin and Millais with Effie emerging as a key figure in their artistic development. Effie is a heartbreakingly beautiful book about three lives passionately entwined with some of the greatest paintings of the pre-Raphaelite period.

How to Create the Perfect Wife
How to Create the Perfect Wife

Author: Wendy Moore

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0465065732

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A captivating tale of one man's mission to groom his ideal mate. Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal, yet tough and hardy, and completely subervient to his whims. But after being rejected by a number of spirited young women, Day concluded that the perfect partner he envisioned simply did not exist in frivolous, fashion-obsessed Georgian society. Rather than conceding defeat and giving up on his search for the woman of his dreams, however, Day set out to create her. So begins the extraordinary true story at the heart of How to Create the Perfect Wife. A few days after he turned twenty-one and inherited a large fortune, Day adopted two young orphans from the Founding Hospital and, guided by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the principles of the Enlightenment, attempted to teach them to be model wives. Day's peculiar experiment inevitably backfired -- though not before he had taken his theories about marriage, education, and femininity to shocking extremes. Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism -- and deep contradictions -- at the heart of the enlightenment.

The Perfect Wife
The Perfect Wife

Author: Ann Gerhart

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-04-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780743276993

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This book tells the complete story of Laura Welch Bush. From Mrs. Bush's upbringing in West Texas to her whirlwind romance with George W. Bush, and role as a mother.

The Model Wife
The Model Wife

Author: Julia Llewellyn

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-08-28

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0141911565

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How to be A Model Wife Your Husband’s happiness is your happiness. Should you be His second wife, make friends with His first wife otherwise she’ll destroy you. Never ask Him when He’ll be home. Never ask Him where He’s been. PAH! Twentysomething Poppy became a cliché when an accidental pregnancy presented her with a forty-nine year-old husband. But Luke Norton isn’t any old husband – he’s the anchorman for television’s Seven O’Clock News and his ruggedly handsome face is beloved by the nation. Life isn’t coming up roses thanks to the first Mrs Norton’s popular column, My Husband, The Bimbo and Me. Luke’s having a midlife crisis and going AWOL, his former lovers are circling like sharks and Poppy’s left holding the baby, her once glitzy modeling career a horribly dim memory. It’s time for her to fight back and show the world exactly what she’s made of ...

The First Wife
The First Wife

Author: Paulina Chiziane

Publisher: Archipelago

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0914671499

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After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work from Mozambique's first published female novelist, Paulina Chiziane explores her country's traditional culture, its values and hypocrisy, and the subjection of women the world over.

39 Uses for a Wife
39 Uses for a Wife

Author: Harriet Ziefert

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781402726682

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From hairstylist to chief financial officer, a wife plays so many roles--and this delightfully humorous collection honors every one of them. With fun full-page drawings and an appealing gift format, this adorable little hardcover is perfect for Mother's Day, holidays, birthdays, or any day at all. Throughout, wives do just what they do best: substitute for a thermometer with a hand on the forehead; provide ballast for a canoe by sitting at the edge; double as a travel pillow as hubby rests his head on her shoulder; and have a sexy time walking the home runway as a lingerie model. The friendly, eye-catching format and engaging look will have this book flying off the shelves and into wives' arms everywhere.

The Photographer's Wife
The Photographer's Wife

Author: Suzanne Joinson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1620408325

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It is 1937. Prue, an artist living a reclusive life by the sea, is visited by William Harrington, a British pilot she knew as a child in Jerusalem. Prue remembers an attraction between Harrington and Eleanora, the wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer, and the troubles that arose when Harrington learned Eleanora's husband was part of an underground group intent on removing the British. During his visit, Harrington reveals the truth behind what happened all those years ago, a truth that unravels Prue's world. Now she must follow the threads that lead her back to secrets long-ago buried in Jerusalem. The Photographer's Wife is a powerful story of betrayal: between father and daughter, between husband and wife, and between nations and people, set in the complex period between the two world wars.