Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
CHAPTER XVIII.
The matrimonial state of literature.--Matrimony said not to be well-suited to the domestic life of genius.--Celibacy a concealed cause of the early querulousness of men of genius.--Of unhappy unions.--Not absolutely necessary that the wife should be a literary woman.--Of the docility and susceptibility of the higher female character.--A picture of a literary wife. 198