
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
BY - ADELE GARRISON
[Illustration: "LOOK AT ME, MARGARET."]
INTRODUCTION
I. "I WILL BE HAPPY! I WILL! I WILL!"
II. THE FIRST QUARREL
III. KNOWN TO FAME AS LILLIAN GALE
IV. DIVIDED OPINIONS
V. "ALWAYS YOUR JACK"
VI. A MAID AND MODEL
Margaret Spencer has spent years mocking the institution of marriage, building a comfortable career and a self‑crafted routine of solitary reflection. On a bright wedding day she drops all those theories, becomes Mrs. Richard Graham, and silently repeats the mantra, “I will be happy!” Her late mother’s dying wish—to record every marital difficulty for the next generation—now haunts her as she steps into a life she never imagined.
Her new husband, Dicky, is a free‑spirited artist whose charm is matched by a stubborn insistence that she abandon her teaching job. Margaret’s first weeks together are a delicate dance between her longing for independence and the quiet demands of domesticity, all observed through the hour she has always set aside for private thought. As she begins to chronicle the small triumphs and inevitable frustrations, listeners are invited to share in a candid, early‑twentieth‑century portrait of love, compromise, and the search for a shared identity.
Full title
Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon The Story of a Honeymoon
Language
en
Duration
~9 hours (554K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2004-04-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
b. 1873
Best known for turning domestic life into compulsive serialized fiction, this American writer kept newspaper readers hooked for years with Revelations of a Wife. Writing under the pen name Adele Garrison, she built one of the era’s most widely read newspaper narratives.
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