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

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