A Question of Time
- ISBN-10
- 1512342874
- ISBN-13
- 9781512342871
- Series
- A Question of Time
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-05-23
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Author
- Gertrude Atherton
Description
Gertrude Franklin Atherton has certainly chosen an unusual subject for a novel when she makes her hero of twenty-two fall in love with a woman twenty-four years his senior, and marry her. Miss Atherton's story abounds in absurdities of which one would suppose Amelie Rives alone capable. The fact that her hero is a genius, with a capital letter which obtrudes itself on every page, may explain his eccentricities, and perhaps make intelligible his paying afternoon calls on entire strangers, accompanied by seven cats. The question whether a man should marry a woman older than himself is discussed at great length; the conclusion reached is that young geniuses should always marry women double their age-indeed, the older these are the better, since calmness and knowledge of the world are needed to counterbalance the intense temperament of the husband. The hero of A Question of Time is a striking example of this need. But the rule we presume to have been reached a priori. Miss Atherton's book includes an amusing short story, "Mr. Pentleton's Four-in-hand," and it is dedicated "with apologies to the shade of Oliver Maddox-Brown." -The Literary World, Volume 22 [1891]
