A short anthology of late-Victorian stories about marriages gone wrong. It opens with Kipling’s Bronckhorst Divorce-Case, from his Anglo-Indian newspaper days, in which a brutal husband tries to rid himself of his wife through the courts, and continues with tales by Ella D’Arcy, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing and Arthur Morrison of jealousy, cruelty, deceit and quiet misery at home.
A sharp sampler of the period’s darker domestic fiction. Download the free EPUB.