The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-29
AUTHORS UNHAPPY WIVES.

-.
ne Married Lives of Dickens and Car. ms
,vle-The Mates of g enius Have NOT ms
Always q Pleasant Lot IN Lie. Ri
rNew York Start ~
A correspondent, who mas reau WIZ" he
interest Mrs. Cards article on 'Mtf, III
,pe', and the interview win that 'auy ",
in our columns last week, mr.
sends as the subjOined commun:ca'lon. all
n will he observed that he makes 10 OF
.t.amn, to prove anything either one .,
wav or the other, but contents himseii a,
with briefly setting forth few facts A
concerniog the married life OF Dickens %
and of Carlyle, merely pointing out d.
mat. II seems to him, in the one case
mutually agreed upon separation result
e1l In disaster, while In the other the
marriage bond, though strained, re-
NAMED uubroken, as 1t was pest ioE
hoth that It should. We print his note
without further introduction.
The marriage of the future, as on-
derstand it from Mrs. Cards famous
article and the interview published In
the Pail Mall Gazette, is to be con-
tract which shall, In the event Of GER
tain contingencies happening, be dssso-
l,,hle at the instance of either party.
Mrs. Card protests-and rightly pro-
/ teats-sgaiust any inference oeing
drawn OF Whist will happen When
new relation is legal:z.d from the oc-
, currences which take place when tnat
, same relation is under Oan. 1et
think / may be allowed TO point OUT
. that there are two remarkable oPpos"e
I cases in the literary history OF inc iast
y Atty years or 80, IN eacn OF Wn'cn !
aiP ri UnNlI have
\ advocated voluntary separation. 10 the
!. ono case-and here there were several
!, children-sucb q separation did act
Il ually take place in the other, child.
= less marriage, the pair, insthe face OF
; the prayest misunderstanding, lived
II together n,ill death them did part" II
=. Ia not nv intention to generalize upon
Il those two cases; whatever weight they
10 NAV possess will, make no doubt, be
m ultimately accorded to them.
:. Charles Dickens married at the age
n. of "a. His wife was the sister OF q
~ brother Journalist, for at the time OF his
-, marriage Dickens was still parliament
< tarv reporter for the Morning Chroni-
,a Gle. The young couple appear TO have
~ lived happily together for some years
.he hore him a considerable number o.
children. add his references to her are
- alwsvs of an affectiouate character
~ Years rolled on, and the reporter became
,v. a rich and famous novelist. He amass
mo- ed considerable wealth; his books wer'
N. In everybody's hands and his name be
~, came a household word. Dickens ant
If his wife lived together for invent;
, = wears, How the arrangement Whic
hv eventually ended In their separation
re. is very difficult to discover. MI. fo'
, Il ster. as becomes an experienced an
am discreet biograpi'er, touches the opisoe'
,d1. az lightly rs possible. But 1t seems :,
~, me. mere IL every reason to accept IN
8. abatement of Dickens latest biograph'
:. ~ mir Frank Marzials) that for SON
III time previous to 1868 D:ck' ns was
sts an .;over-excited, nervous, motbl
o," state" He was feverish, aud coul
,a- NOT he quiet. As Harriet Martineau r
ar. marked. est must have been terrib
cit wearing to his wife," And, on Il
other hand, Mrs. Dickens dissatisfa
mi. ton must have reacted upon her nj
tiny hands peculiar frame of mind. Thin
an could not 20 ON like this for long. v
cont and him writing 10 Forster; "Po
.,,,c Catherine and are not made Tor ca
,eiv other. and there ia no help for 1t. 1t
atesi not only that she makes meuneasy
aath unhappy. but that I make her 50, u
and much more go. She is exac
sno. what you know in the way OF Del
man amiable aud complying, but we
= IN strangely ill-assorted for the bond tn
Tho ia between US. Hsr temperament v
and not 20 with mine." Such letter OF
IN or too clearly foreshadowed the end,
NAV they parted soon afterward. She :
mfg not present at Gadshill when her D
band died one does not know whet
and she was sent for or not; one only kne
.hlo- that it was the arm of his wiie's SIS
uater and not that of his wife which SUPP
ouuh ted him as he rose dying from the
the ncr table. Dickens reference to
iveiv wife In his will, made year before
rcept death, is anything but affection
m be There is no mention of "second
X let bed with furniture," such. as Shat
lphur peare bequeathed to his wife but
stead of il we find seif-gratula'
m ia sentence which reads almost like z
with proach: Sand desire here siTapi
urous record the fact that my wife Since