Evening Standard - London, October 8th, 2001
GOOD WIVES? Mary, Fanny, Jennie and Me by Margaret Forster (Chatto, 18.99)
MARGARET Foster's new book is a gentle enquiry into the conditions of being a wife, using three historical subjects as examples, interspersed with autobiographical reflections about her own happy 40- year marriage to journalist and writer Hunter Davies. Forster's novels and memoirs are all about family relationships, the hard lot of women, the demands of men: here she goes over the same territory in a more analytical spirit.
As representatives of wifedom, the three subjects seem arbitrarily picked.
Mary Moffat, wife ...
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