Honeymoons

(Paperback)

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Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not - by turn funny, tender, acerbic and charming.

Includes extracts from: Paul Bowles, Dorothy Sayers, D. H. Lawrence, Byron, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dorothy Parker, A. N. Wilson, Thackeray, Trollope, Dickens, Ruskin, Maupassant, Martha Gellhorn, Graham Greene.

A brilliant collection of writings on the subject of the honeymoon. Offering context and commentary where necessary, the editors have canvassed history, fact and fiction for the gamut of newlywed experience, from the Brownings blissful elopement and Napoleon and Marie-Louises swift exit from the marriage supper, to Charles Kingsleys bizarre proposal of chastity and Tess Durbeyfields tragic disclosure of her rapeto the tenderly erotic writing from, of all people, Queen Victoria, who delights in sneaking in to watch her new husband shave. Time Out

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Highly entertaining, few events are supposed to offer more unmixed happiness and therefore more colourful possibilities of everything going horribly wrong. The Oldie

Author Bio

Rose Baring is a guide book writer and travel journalist; co-publisher of Eland Books