James Jones,
Go to the Widowmaker
(London, 1969), p. 282.
The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. M. D. Brainchi and A. L. Hampson (London, 1933), p. 131.
THE MIDDLE-CLASS MYTH OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE
Denis de Rougemont,
Love in the Western World, cf
. C. S. Lewis,
The Allegory of Love
.
Hail Maidenhad
, ed. O. Cockayne, Early English Text Society Pub- lications No. 19 (1866), pp. 28—39.
C. L. Powell,
English Domestic Relations
1487—1653 (Columbia, 1927), p. 126.
Rabelais, Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his sonne Pantagruel (London, 1653), Caps LII—LVIII.
Gordon Rattray Taylor,
Sex in History
(London, 1965), p. 138.
Erasmus,
Two dyaloges wrytten in Laten…one called Polythemus or the Gospeller, the other dysposing of thynges and names
translated into Englyshe by Edmonde Becke, Sig.M5 verso.
The story appeared in the
Decamerone
, not for the first time, and was instantly taken up as a theme, by Petrarch, who wrote a Latin treatment of it, and then several French versions appeared to prolif- erate in the sixteenth century in a rash of ballads and poems and plays e.g.
The Antient True and admirable History of Patient Grissel
(1619),
The Pleasant and sweet History of Patient Grissell
(1630),
The Pleasant Comodie of Patient Grissill
. By H. Chettle, T. Deloney, and T. Haughton (1603),
The Most Pleasant Ballad of Patient Grissel…To the tune of the Brides Goodmorrow
(T. Deloney? 1600 and 1640).
E.g., The Boke of Husbandry…Made first by the Author
Fitzher- bert,…Anno Domini 1568, fol. xxxvi verso. The ten properties of a woman:
The .i. is to be mery of chere, ye .ii. to be wel placed, the .iii. to haue a broad forhed, the .iiii. to haue brod buttocks, the .v. to be hard of ward, ye .vi. to be easy to leap upon, ye .vii. to be good at long iourney, ye .viii. to be wel sturring under a man, the .ix. to be alway busy wt ye mouth, ye .x. euer to be chewing on ye bridle.
Peter Laslett,
The World We Have Lost
(London, 1965).
John Campion,
Two Books of Airs
;
Jack and Joan they think no ill, But loving live and merry still…
Nicholas Breton,
The Court and Country
(1618),
The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton
, ed. A. B. Grosart (London, 1879), Vol. II.
E.g.
Barclay in
The Ship of Fooles
, Ascham in
The Scholemaster
, Lodge in
Wits Miserie
, among many others.
4 & 5 Philip and Mary c. 8, and 39 Elizabeth c. 9.
E.g.
the popular Elizabethan ballad,
The Brides Goodmorrow
. (The version in the B.M. dates from 1625.)
Antoine de la Sale,
Les Quinze Joies de Mariage
rendered by Thomas Dekker as
The Batchelar’s Banquet
(1603).
One farce which exists in both French and English and demon- strates the archetypal pattern is
Johan Johan and Tyb his Wife
.
When Lady Mary Gray, a tiny woman bred too close to royalty for her own comfort, married Keys, a sergeant porter of no breeding and a huge man, for her own safety, the scandal was very great. (Strype,
Annals of the Reformation
[1735], Vol. II, p. 208.)
Sir Philip Sidney,
Astrophel and Stella
, especially Sonnets xxix, xxxvi, xli, lii, lxxii, lxxvi, lxxxi, lxxxii,
cf
. Samuel Daniel,
Delia
and Sir Thomas Wyatt, Poems from the Egerton MS.
Edmund Spenser,
Amoretti
and
Epithalamion
, published in 1595.
William Habington,
Castara
published anonymously in 1634. The first part deals with courtship and the second, which deals with marriage, has the epigraph
Vatumque lascivos triumphos, calcat Amor, pede coniugali
.
E.g.
Thomas Deloney,
The Gentle Craft, A Discourse Containing many matters of Delight
…London…1637. Chapter 5 relates ‘How the Emperours Fair Daughter Ursula, fell in love with young Crispine comming with shooes to the Court; and how in the end they were secretly married by a blind Frier.’
The Fair Maid of Fressingfield is the subject of the subplot of
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
(1592) by Robert Greene.
The Golden Legend
was a compilation of Saints stories made ac- cording to the calendar of feasts by Jacobus de Voragine, Bishop of Genoa in the thirteenth century. It was one of the first books to be printed, and went through edition after edition in all places where there were printing presses, the first international bestseller.
Gillian Freeman,
The Undergrowth of Literature
(London, 1969), pp. 50—51.
Sunday Times
, 3.8.1969, ‘Making Money out of Marriage’.
Sunday Times
, 15.6.1969, ‘First Catch your Millionaire’.
FAMILY
William Shakespeare,
Cymbeline
, II, v. 1—2 (
Works op. cit.
, p. 1024).
Some evidence of this can be gained from the Plowden Report, summarized in the
Sunday Mirror
, 8.3.1970.
Sunday Mirror
, 23.11.1969, ‘Let’s All Cuddle’.
Lionel Tiger,
Men in Groups
(London, 1969), pp. 209—10.
John Updike,
Couples
(London, 1968), pp. 138, 141, 150.
Sunday Mirror
(
loc. cit.
).
Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson,
Generation X
(London, 1964), p. 43.
8.
Ibid
., pp. 48—9.
9. Wilhelm Reich,
The Sexual Revolution
(New York, 1969), p. 71.
SECURITY
Hamblett and Deverson (
op. cit.
), pp. 41, 111.
E.g.
Edmund Spenser,
Two Cantos of Mutabilitye
published in 1609 ‘parcell of some following Booke of the Faeire Queene’ which was never completed.
I suspect that a contract made by a man and a woman respecting the conditions of the cohabitation would be regarded by law as a contract for an immoral purpose, and hence not binding in law (!).
Hamblett and Deverson (
op. cit.
), pp. 48—9.
LOATHING AND DISGUST
1. Frank Reynolds as told to Michael McClure,
Freewheelin’ Frank
(London, 1967), p. 86.
2.
Ibid
., pp. 55, 7, and 12—13.
Eldridge Cleaver,
Soul on Ice
(New York, 1968), pp. 16—17.
‘Eager Females—How they reveal themselves’,
Male
, Vol. 19, No. 6, June 1969.
5.
Stag
, Vol. 20, No. 5, May 1969.
Reynolds (
op. cit.
).
William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxxix (
Works, op. cit.
) p. 1124.
Dean Swift, ‘Cassinus and Peter’,
The Poems of Jonathan Swift
, ed. Harold Williams (Oxford, 1937), p. 597.
Hubert Selby,
Last Exit to Brooklyn
(London, 1966), pp. 82—3.
10. Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne,
Groupie
(London, 1969).
11. R. L. Dickinson and Laura Beam,
The Single Woman
(London, 1934), pp. 18, 252, 258, 262, 264.
12. 12.
Ibid
., p. 231.
13. 13.
E.g.
Albert Ellis and Edward Sagarin,
Nymphomania
(London, 1968), pp. 45, 54, 59, 103—4, 118—9, 122-3.
ABUSE
1.
Evening News
, 18.12.1969.
William Shakespeare,
King Lear
, III. iv. 117—22 and IV. i. 62—3 (
Works, op. cit.
, pp. 926, 930).
The sources for this section are mainly the
New English Dictionary
(Oxford), and Wentworth and Flexner’s
Dictionary of American Slang
and E. Partridge,
Smaller Slang Dictionary
(London, 1961), and Farmer and Henley,
Slang and its Analogues
(London, 1890).
Rolling Stone
, No. 27, 15 February 1969.
Nathan Shiff,
Diary of a Nymph
(New York, 1961).
Letter to ‘Mary Grant’,
Woman’s Own
, 19.7.1969, and to ‘Evelyn Home’,
Woman
, 15.3.1969, and to ‘Mary Marryat’,
Woman’s Weekly
, 2.7.1969.
‘Love Needs no Words’,
New Romance
, No. 3, November 1969 and ‘When Someone Needs You’,
True Story
, No. 565, December 1969.
Gael Green,
Sex and the College Girl
(London, 1969), p. 111, quoting a Queen’s University Conference on Mental Health, reported in the
New York Times
, 19 May 1963.
9.
Ibid
., pp. 45—6, and 111—13.
Jim Moran,
Why Men Shouldn’t Marry
(London, 1969), p. 43.
Gilbert Oakley,
Sane and Sensual Sex
(London, 1963), p. 51. 12.
Ibid
., pp. 52—3.
13. Philip Wylie,
Generation of Vipers
(New York, 1942), pp. 187—8. 14.
Ibid
., pp. 188—9.
Best Mother-in-Law Jokes
compiled by J. D. Sheffield (London, 1969), p. 1 and
passim
.
From the single ‘Second Generation Woman’ Reprise RS23315 published by Dukeslodge Enterprises.
MISERY
Letter to ‘Evelyn Home’,
Woman
, 2.8.1969.
Betty Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique
(New York, 1963), pp. 20—21.
An
Observer
report on the patent medicine industry (4.1.1970) stated that of £50,000,000 a year, £15,000,000 was spent on painkillers,
£6,000,000 on tonics and vitamins, and £6,500,00 on advertising.
Letter to ‘Evelyn Home’,
Woman
, 22.3.1969.
Forum
, Vol. II, No. 8, pp. 69—70. 6.
The People
, 23.11.1969.
7.
The Times
, 9.5.1969.
News of the World
, 6.7.1969.
News of the World
, 30.11.1969 reporting the compilation of the Family Planning Association’s publication,
The Pill and You
.
Professor Victor Wynn is in charge of the Alexander Simpson Laboratory for Metabolic Research at St Mary’s Hospital in Padding- ton (reported in
The People
, 14.12.1969),
cf
. research by Dr Anne Lewis and Mr Masud Noguchi reported in the
Observer
, 15.6.1969.
Reported in the
Observer
, 20.7.1969.
Sunday Times
, 1.6.1969.
Dr W. J. Stanley, in
The British Journal of Social and Preventive Medicine
, November, 1969.
Vide
‘78 Battered Children’. Report of the NSPCC (September 1969), and
Sunday Times
, 30.11.1969.
RESENTMENT
George Eliot,
Middlemarch
.
Eric Berne,
The Games People Play
(London, 1964), p. 162.
REBELLION
The Anatomy of a Woman’s Tongue divided into Five Parts
(London, 1963), Epigram III, p. 173.
The Family of Love were an English sect which originated in Holland under the leadership of Hendrick Niclaes; it sought to re- unify men in the Mystical Body. See
A brief rehearsal of the belief of the good-willing in England
(1656),
A Description of the sect called The Family of Love: with their Common Place of Residence
. Being discovered by Mrs Susannah Snow of Pinford near Chertsey in the County of Surrey, who was vainly led away for a time through their base al- lurements (1641), and
The Displaying of an horrible sect of…Heretiques
(1578).
Betty Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique
(New York, 1963).
Juliet Mitchell, ‘Women—The Longest Revolution’,
New Left Re- view
, November—December 1966, p. 18.
5.
Ibid
., pp. 36—7.
6. Evelyn Reed,
Problems of Women’s Liberation: A Marxist Approach
(New York, 1969).
7. Reich (
op. cit.
), pp. 153—269.
8. Tiger (
op. cit.
), pp. 110—11.
Kyril Tidmarsh, ‘The Right to do the Hardest Work’,
The Times
, 16.2.1967. See also
Women in the Soviet Economy
by T. Dodge (Bal- timore, 1966).
Quoted in
Towards a Female Liberation Movement
by Beverly Jones and Judith Brown (New England Free Press), p. 2.
New Left Notes
, August 1967.
Judi Bernstein, Peggy Morton, Lina Seese, Myrna Wood,
Sisters, Brothers, Lovers…Listen
…(New England Free Press), p. 7.
Soviety Weekly
, 17 May 1969, p. 5.
Anonymous letter in
New Left Notes
, December 1967.
Marilyn Webb, ‘We Have a Common Enemy’,
New Left Notes
, 10 June 1968.
Jones and Brown (
op. cit.
), pp. 20—22.
17.
Ibid
., p. 37.
Anne Koedt,
The Myth of Vaginal Orgasm
(New England Free Press), p. 5.
Ibid
.
Nancy Mann,
Fucked-up in America (ibid
.)
Julie Baumgold, ‘You’ve come a long way, Baby’,
New York
, 9 June 1969, p. 30.
Vivian Gornick, ‘The Next Great Moment in History is Theirs’,
Village Voice
, 27 November 1969.
Mention ought also to be made of the NJACC (
vide supra
‘Work’, and Midge McKenzie’s Feminists, who produced the mimeographed
Harpies Bizarre
. Women’s Liberation Workshop has now expanded to five groups, while another group in Nottingham puts out a du- plicate sheet called
Socialist Woman
, and another at Bristol,
Enough is Enough
. A conference at Oxford, 28 February to 1 March, drew five hundred participants, along with four hundred children and fifty menfolk.
Gloria Steinem, ‘The City Politic’,
New York
, 10 March 1969.