My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.
If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life.
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.
Shakespeare is definitely my first love.
I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.