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2 novels show sad extremes of marital norms
From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20040125
Author:Paul Campos Scripps Howard News Service
The death of Olivia Goldsmith, best known for her novel "The First Wives Club," brings to mind her literary namesake, the 18th-century English novelist Oliver Goldsmith, and in particular his novel, "The Vicar of Wakefield."
Both novels are about marriage; and it's a close question as to which book casts that institution in a more discouraging light. "The Vicar of Wakefield" is set in a world in which divorce does not exist, where respectable young women have no profession other than marriage and in which female "virtue" is a commodity that is bought and sold with all the sentimental warmth ...
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