Wichita eagle., 1886-09-12
MARRIED MEN OF LETTERS.
Loves OF Seine Great AuthOrs-Poets. A.
trono,nerS Preachers, Travellers, Etc.

Toves OF Seine Great AutIiOrs-POefs. As
tronomer~. Preachers, Travellers, Etc.
Some OF the names III our list OF men
OF letters who married are not those of
authors who depended or depend-for
some of them are still iving-on their
writings for subsistence, but nearly all
depend on their writings for their repu-
tation.l
AS all OF these men were husbands.
and most OF them fathers, such q list
may serve to show hat husi,sn,.s and
fathers need not despair OF achieving
regulations as author though, in lit
erature, as in other pursuits, a man gen.
orally secures some measure Of success
before he marries.
This, however, is far from being al
ways the case. st. Augustine was
father, If not husband, before he was
saint or author.
The married poets, it will be noticed,
are numerous. Few OF the best arc
missing. This is exactly as might be
expected. The genuine poet is above all
things lover.
If some eminent poets are missing
from our list, which, by the way. does
not pretend to be exhaustive, it would
be rash to accuse them Of inSenSibility
to the destinations OF the fair. for by
the missing name there usually hangs a
sad tale of disappointed love.
Camoens, for example, was twice BAN
ished because OF his passion for one OF
the Queens ladies" at the Court OF
Lisbon, and, although his love was re-
turned, the fateS were so unkind that
she died before he could claim her
n The number of travellers, or rather
authors of books Of travel, is compare
lively small, and this, again. is exactly
as might have been expected. It is not
the husband and the father who affects
the Satanic habit of walking up and
down and going to and fro upon the
earth.
It would take a volume to notice all
the interesting facts about authors and
their wives. Here are a few:
OF Tycho Brahe we read that, "being
q great admirer OF the fair sex he con-
ceived a violent inclination for Christina,
beautiful country girl, the daughter OF
| neight:oring peasant, and alienated his
family till the King commanded them
| to be reconciled to him. Tycho, who
| chose ner because she might be more
| grateful and subservient than q lady Of
! higher birth, never seems to have re-
| pented, but ever found his Christina
an agreeable companion and an obedient
wife"
Kepler, on the other hand, found that,
"the married state at first created him
| great uneasiness from a dispute which
arose about his wife's fortune
John Knox, in spite of his g Blast OF
the Trumpet Against the Monstrous
Regiment of Women married two OF
them, and had children by both.
Sir John Vaudeville " religiously de-
| clined an honorable alliance TO the
Sultan of Egypt, whose daughter he
might have espoused if he would have
abjured Christianity"
Burton, as far as we have been able
to learn, was never married. This
again is as we expected. The Ana
tony of Melancholy is not the kind OF
book that anybody but lonely bache-
lor would think Of writing.
Young author OF Might Thoughts. y
married lady with money, and SO did
DR.. johnson.
Cruden, the author Of the Concord
ance," tried to do the same, aud adj
dressed numerous pamphlets to the
object of his choice, but she remained
obdurate in spite of these and other ex.
traordnary means Of wooing.-( Pail
Mall Gazette.