The Genius and Mrs. Genius (1997)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/02/10/the-genius-and-mrs-genius

by nonoobs • 4 years ago

37 8 4 years ago

Beautiful !

kirsebaer• 4 years ago

Many male authors have relied on their wives as unpaid secretaries, typists, editors, researchers, and writers. #ThanksForTyping

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ishmaeldaro/thanks-for-...

ovi256• 4 years ago

After Patrick O'Brian's wife Mary passed, his writing lost something. He is famous for the Aubrey-Maturin book series.

The books became darker, sure. But it also lost plot cohesion. There is proof his wife was the one tracking the various plot and continuity lines through his 21 volume Aubrey-Maturin series. The last three are not quite the coronation of a life's work they deserved them to be.

pannSun2• 4 years ago

Unpaid? Did they not share household income/expenses, and in case of divorce, were entitled to part (half, I believe) of their ex-husband's wealth? In addition to child-support.

skyyler• 4 years ago

A compensation plan of "room and board + a cheque upon termination" would be considered a form of slavery in most of the first world. Purchasing decisions in single-income families are usually ultimately decided by the person with income, aren't they?

lioeters• 4 years ago

https://archive.ph/5SRfR

cafard• 4 years ago

"Still, her handwriting is there, and it is difficult not to see Véra as the fictional Clare, lifting the edge of a page in the typewriter and declaring, “ ‘No, my dear. You can’t say it so in English. . . . And if for instance,’ she would say—and then an exact suggestion would follow.”

Well perhaps. Yet the article describes her as having arrived in America with "uncertain English", and Nabokov had spoken English from his youth and attended an English college.

The Genius and Mrs. Genius (1997)

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