![]() ![]() You might put the Diary into the hands of a Martian to explain the institution and its workings, at least as it existed for the middle classes for three centuries, from the seventeenth until the twentieth, when men held economic and intellectual sway over their wives and in many aspects it is still perfectly relevant, because its great achievement is to map the tidal waters of marriage, where the waves of feeling ebb and flow from hour to hour and month to month. The nine and a half years between give as good an account of the married state as has ever been written, its struggles, its woes, its pleasures and its discontents. ![]() Pepys marks it as the central fact of his life at the beginning, and on each of the last two days he records being ‘called by my wife’. The Diary starts and ends in considerations of marriage. ![]()
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