| Title | 6. Wife of Jack |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Barbara Fisher (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0377.06 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0377/chapters/10.11647/obp.0377.06 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Barbara Fisher |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2024-09-04 |
| Long abstract | When Trix and Jack arrived in England on home leave in 1890, their young marriage was already faltering. The first meeting between pretty and poetic Trix and the stiff and proper Flemings in Edinburgh was a disaster, confirming Trix’s fears that her extroverted and effusive personality and Jack’s undemonstrative and dour temperament were unalterable and incompatible. After two years of home leave, the couple returned to begin their domestic life in Calcutta, where Trix, for the first time, had the responsibility of running a household. Like most Anglo-Indian wives, she learned to live within the many restrictions of the Raj, but unlike most, she wrote and published clever stories in Lahore’s principal newspaper, the Pioneer. |
| Page range | pp. 103–120 |
| Print length | 18 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Barbara Fisher graduated from Bennington College with a B.A. and received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English Literature from Columbia University. For many years, she taught 18th and 19th Century English Literature, mostly at Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate college of the New School University in New York City. She has also been a book reviewer for major U.S. newspapers including the The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, for which she wrote a book column every other Sunday for fifteen years. This is her first book as an independent scholar. She is currently working on a biography of mid-20th Century cultural and literary critic Lionel Trilling.