Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-19
LITERARY MEN AS HUSBANDS.
Many of Them Enjoyed Very Little Domesti
Bliss.


Bliss.
From the Writer
The great Dante was married 10 a notorious
scold. and when he was in exile he had no de-
sire to see her, although she was the mother Of
his six children.
Shakespeare lost the sympathies of the world
by marrying Anne Hathaway, a woman eight
years his senior, who was coarse and ignorant
1t is told OF Lord Bacon tina. he enjoyed bu,
little domestic bliss and ''loved not to be with
his partner
Milton was not great in the character of hus
band and father. We read of him that his first
wife was disguised with his gloomy house, and
soon ran away from him. and his daughters
were left to grow uD utterly neglected.
OF the great artist, Domenichino, it is told
hat he married a lady of high birth and great
Leautv.-who such a yirago that it is be.
lIeved she poisoned him.
Montague. when a widower. said no would
not marry again, though it were to wisdom
ITSELF
Mcliere was married to a wife who made him
miserable and Rousseau lived most wretchei
life with his wife, who was low and iliterate
Drydea married discord in a noble wife ~
AMI Addison sold himself to a cross graineti
Did countess. who made him pay dearly for all
she gave him.
Steele Sterne. Churchill, Coleridge. Byron
ana shelley we're all married unhappily and
Bulwer and Dickens have been known by all
the world as Indifferent husbands.
TLc younger Pnny thus speaks of his wife.
Calphurnia: Her affection for me has given
her turn for books; her passion will increase
with our days, for 1t is not my youth nor my
person that she loves. but my reputation and
my glory of which she is enamored."
Sir Walter Raleigh married "a beautiful girl
eighteen years his junior. and she adored him
with increasing ardCr to the very last
DIR. Johnson's wife was old enough to be his
mother. but "he continued to be under the
illusions of the wedding day until she died
ut the age OF sixty-four, he being only forty
three.
Button told his friend that his wife had a
great influence over his composition. Il am
always refreshed anu aided by her advice"
Sir Walter Scott was genius Of the very first
order He succeeded in every department of
letters, but his greatest happiness was in his
wife. He married her after short acanaint-
ance and it was a genuine love match lasting
until the day of her death.
Mocre's wife was one of the noblest
creatures and he never tired of singing her
praises. T.
shelleys first marriage was unfortunate. but
his second was model of happiness.
Wordsworth made a love match and WA n
lover through life.
The wife OF Christopher North had more in.
huence over him than any other person in the
world, and her death was his greatest of mis-
fortunes.
Lamartine, the great French poet was hap
PLY married and received great aid from his
wife in all his undertakings.
1t would be impossible anywhere to find
more domestic felicity than among the great
circle OF our modern men and women Of let.
tiers. Mr.. and Mrs. s. c. Hail. the two Brown
ings, the two Howitts. Tennyson and his wife,
Charles Kingsley, Baron Bunson and his wife
and many others less noted might be men,
toned, while the Englishmen of prominence in
other fields have the same good fortune.
Beaconsfeld married lively young widow,
who made him perfectly happy, and he never
lost an occasion Of singing her praises. DR..
Arnold of Rugby is cited a. having an almost
ideal home-life, and also the late Dean Stanley
All the world knows how happy the Gladstones
are in their family circle, and it ID with many
others.
On this side Of the ocean We are proud Of the
domestic purity and happiness of most Of our
noted men. LongfelIow, Emerson, Alcott,
Holmes, Lowell, Hawthorne-all down the long
and glorious list we can proudly point to genius
sanctified by domestic love, and none the less
happy because they were literary people.