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Friday essay: 'the problem is that my success seems to get in his way' – the fraught terrain of literary marriages

“It’s true to say that writers are selfish people,” the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard once said. “But it’s not quite enough of an excuse.”

The Conversation · Jun 22, 2023

Lives of the Wives by Carmela Ciuraru review – literary couples a breed apart

The author raids memoirs and letters but adds little of her own in this juicy group biography of writers’ marriages

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2023

‘Ruthless ambition and ego’: what it’s like being married to an author

In a meticulously researched new book, the lives of five literary wives are examined and the often abusive relationships they found themselves in

The Guardian - US · Feb 28, 2023