Reviews

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

tsoutham's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book made me angrier and angrier as I contemplated my own complicity in patriarchy. Wifedom will take you to new depths when you see what a woman can  relinquish  and a man abscond.

Anna Funder says " 

“It is a phenomenal advantage to the writerly imagination to think this way. The first task of the imagination, for a writer, is the creation of the writing Self. It's quite a job, and it helps to have two of you added: she, believing in you, so you, too, believe in yourself. This nurtured self is then mother to the work. And the work, in turn, becomes evidence of a self: I made, therefore I am. 

 

And in that sentence, she disappears” p. 53 

tenderherb's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

bbbreads's review against another edition

reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

hinkle's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

melanievonh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

smartiebooknerd's review

informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

cupidmarble's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

gracehickman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

foldingpagecorners's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

chanelchapters's review against another edition

DNF

Supposed to focus on the wife but I felt it was more about Orwell (who, to no one’s surprise, was a shitty unfaithful husband who took his wife for granted) and the author. I also found the authors chapters with her speculations (more guesses about Orwell and his marriage than facts) pulled me out of the story.