The Marriage Book (79 page)

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The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.

Abbas, Haly.
The Pantegni
, 10th century, trans. Henry E. Sigerist. In Catherine Rider,
Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages
, appendix 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 224–25, 227.
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–399

Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams, October 25, 1782. In C. James Taylor, ed., The Adams Papers (Digital Edition). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. Online at
http://www.masshist.org/publications/apde/portia.php?id=ADMS-04-05-02-0013
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390

Adams, Clifford R.
Preparing for Marriage: A Guide to Marital and Sexual Adjustment
. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1951, pp. 179, 180. Copyright © 1951 by Clifford Adams. Reprinted with permission of the estate of Clifford Adams.
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Adams, John. Diary, January?, 1761. In C. James Taylor, ed., The Adams Papers (Digital Edition). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. Online at
http://www.masshist.org/publications/apde/portia.php?mode=p&id=DJA01p193#193
.
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–82

Addison, Joseph. “Wedlock’s an Ill Men Eagerly Embrace.”
The Spectator
, December 29, 1711. In
The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1–314
, vol. 1. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837, p. 377. Online at Google Books.
159

“Advice to Prospective Mothers-in-Law.”
The Baltimore Sun
, May 10, 1908, p. 4. Online at ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
228

“Advice to Unmarried Ladies.”
New-York Daily Gazette
, February 18, 1789, p. 178. Online at America’s Historical Newspapers (NewsBank).
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–83

“Advice to Young Wives.”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, November 1, 1895, p. 12. Online at ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
227

Aesop. “The Fatal Marriage,” circa 6th century BC. In
Aesop’s Fables
. Online at
www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/6589/
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470

African proverb. In Mineke Schipper,
Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs From Around the World
. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006, p. 66.
469

Albee, Edward.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
, 1962. New York: Pocket Books, 1964, pp. 16, 158–59.
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Alcott, Louisa May.
Little Women
, 1867. New York: Aladdin Classics, 2000, p. 151.
298

Alcott, William A.
The Young Wife, or Duties of Woman in the Marriage Relation
. Boston: George W. Light, 1838, pp. 306–7.
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–65

Alexander, Stephany. “Cheating Husbands: Top 10 Ways on How to Catch a Cheating Husband,” 2009. Online at
www.womansavers.com/cheating-husbands.asp
. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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–19

Allen, Woody.
Love and Death
, dir. Woody Allen. United Artists, 1975.
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–91

———. “My Marriage,” 1964. On
Woody Allen: Stand-up Comic, 1964–1968
. Rhino CD, 1999.
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–74

Alman, Isadora. “Two Lives,” 2005. In
Single Woman of a Certain Age
. Hawaii: Inner Ocean Publishing, 2005, p. 156. Copyright © 2005 by Isadora Alman. Reprinted by permission of New World Library, Novato, CA,
www.newworldlibrary.com
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414

Alsop, Gulielma Fell and Mary F. McBride.
She’s Off to Marriage: A Guide to Success and Happiness in Married Life
. New York: Vanguard, 1942, pp. 25–26.
468
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494

Amen, Daniel G.
Images of Human Behavior: A Brain SPECT Atlas.
Newport Beach, CA: Mindworks Press, 2004. Reprinted with the permission of the Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.
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–14

Andelin, Helen.
The Fascinating Girl
, 1969. Santa Barbara, CA: Pacific Press, 1975, pp. 289–92. Copyright © 1970 by Helen Andelin. Reprinted by permission of the estate of Helen Andelin.
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–88

Arnold, Danny. “Mother, Meet What’s His Name.”
Bewitched
, season 1, episode 4, air date October 8, 1964.
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–33

Auden, W. H. “Leap Before You Look,” 1940. In
The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden.
New York: Random House, 1945, p. 123–24. Copyright © 1945 and renewed © 1973 by W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Random House LLC and Curtis Brown, Ltd. All rights reserved.
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–62

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “To his Wife,” circa 350. In Helen Waddell,
Mediaeval Latin Lyrics
. New York: Henry Holt, 1948, p. 33. Copyright © 1929 by Helen Waddell. Reprinted by permission of Constable Publishers/Little Brown Book Group (UK).
503

Austen, Jane.
Pride and Prejudice
, 1813. New York: Penguin Books, 1996, pp. 102–7.
344
–48

Austin, John Mather.
A Voice to the Married; Being a Compendium of Social, Moral, and Religious Duties, Addressed to Husbands and Wives
. Boston: A. Tompkins, 1847, pp. 56, 276–77. Online at Google Books.
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339

Bach, George R., and Peter Wyden.
The Intimate Enemy: How to Fight Fair in Love and Marriage
. New York: William Morrow, 1969, pp. 59–66 passim.
48

“A Bachelor’s Thermometer.”
Freedom’s Journal
. November 9, 1827, p. 1. Online at America’s Historical Newspapers (NewsBank).
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Bacon, Francis. “Of Marriage and Single Life,” 1612. In Alfred S. West, ed.,
Bacon’s Essays
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908, pp. 19, 20. Online at HathiTrust.
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315

Bagot, Arnot.
Learn to Lye Warm, or, An Apology for that Proverb, “Tis good Sheltering under an old Hedge”; containing Reasons, Wherefore a Young Man should Marry an Old Woman
. London: W. Gilbert, 1672, pp. 21, 37. Online at ProQuest.
505

Ballou, Sullivan. Letter to Sarah Ballou, July 14, 1861. In Robin Young,
For Love & Liberty: The Untold Civil War Story of Major Sullivan Ballou & His Famous Love Letter
. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006, pp. xxiv–vii.
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–94

Balzac, Honoré de.
The Marriage Contract
, 1835, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895, pp. 127–28. Online at Google Books.
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–39

———.
The Physiology of Marriage
, 1829. London: Strangeways & Sons, 1904, p. 61, 63–64.
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–73,
401

Barreca, Gina. “Jealousy: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Medea?”
Psychology Today
, July 30, 2009. Online at
www.psychologytoday.com/node/31518
.
242

Barry, Philip.
The Philadelphia Story: A Comedy in Three Acts
, 1939. New York: Samuel French, 1969, p. 13.
382

Bates, Jerome Paine.
The Imperial Highway; or, the Road to Fortune and Happiness
, 1880. Chicago: The National Library Association, 1886, p. 478.
83

Beauvoir, Simone de.
The Second Sex
, 1949, trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevalier. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, p. 523.
495

Beecher, Henry Ward.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit: Selected from the Writings and Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher
, ed. William Drysdale. New York: D. Appleton, 1887, p. 93.
130

Behrendt, Greg, and Liz Tuccillo.
He’s Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
. New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2004, pp. 79, 84. Copyright © 2004 Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo. Reprinted with the permission of Simon Spotlight, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Benton, Robert.
Kramer vs. Kramer
, based on the novel by Avery Corman, dir. Robert Benton. Columbia Pictures, 1979.
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–29

Bergen, Candice.
Knock Wood
, 1984. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014, p. 291.
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–45

Bicks, Jenny. “A Woman’s Right to Shoes.”
Sex and the City,
season 6, episode 9, air date August 17, 2003.
442

Bierce, Ambrose.
The Devil’s Dictionary
, 1911. In David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds.,
The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary
. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000, p. 162.
295

“Bintel Brief”
editor and The Unhappy Fool. Letters, 1908. In Isaac Metzker, ed. and trans.,
A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the
Jewish Daily Forward. New York: Schocken Books, 1971, pp. 73–74.
362

Blackwell, Henry, and Lucy Stone. Marriage protest, 1855. In “A Marriage Under Protest.”
New York Times
, May 4, 1855, p. 2.
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–68

Blake, William. Notebook fragment, circa 1793. In
The Complete Poems
. New York: Penguin, 1977, p. 153.
401

Blakely, Mary Kay. “Hers.”
New York Times
, April 16, 1981, p. C2. Copyright © 1982 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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