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What happens to love inside a marriage, where the deepest feelings may never find words?
In Love and Lucy, Maurice Hewlett turns from medieval romances to ordinary rooms and ordinary choices. Lucy and the subject of love stand at the heart of this English domestic novel. Marriage is its ground: not simply a settled condition, but a relationship shaped by the feelings of the people within it.
The interest lies inward, in desire, private thought, and the distance between what people feel and what they say. The novel also carries the manners and expectations of the early twentieth century. What a wife can do, what a husband can ask, and what a family accepts form the setting for this slow study of feeling.
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- Marriage from the inside Consider a marriage through the feelings that give it life and make it change.
- The pull of desire Explore love as an inward experience, where private feelings matter as much as outward choices.
- What remains unsaid Look beyond spoken words toward the thoughts that others may never hear.
- Ordinary rooms, inward lives Follow Hewlett away from castles and quests into the intimate ground of domestic fiction.
- A marriage in its time Meet the expectations surrounding wives, husbands, and families in early twentieth-century English life.
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For readers who enjoy English fiction of the early twentieth century, marriage novels and careful studies of feeling, desire and duty.
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- A romancer turns to modern life
- Marriage is the ground of the book
- The inner life drives the story
- A record of its own time
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Amore e Lucy
by Maurice Hewlett· 1916
Lucy's marriage holds a private drama of love, desire and duty, where small choices carry the weight of feeling.
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A romancer turns to modern life
Maurice Hewlett first won readers with tales of knights, outlaws and lovers in a medieval world. The Forest Lovers, from 1898, was one of those books, and Richard Yea-and-Nay followed in 1900. Those works were full of colour, journeys and ornate language.
Love and Lucy belongs to a later phase, when Hewlett wrote about his own age. A writer who has spent years on legend often brings a feeling for character and for strong emotion into the present day. That habit can give a modern story a certain richness of voice.
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What is Love and Lucy about?
It is a novel about marriage, love and desire, centered on a woman named Lucy. It follows the feelings that lie beneath married life, with the focus on private thoughts and choices rather than on action or adventure.
Who wrote Love and Lucy?
Maurice Hewlett wrote it. He was an English author who died in 1923 and who is best remembered for his medieval romances, including The Forest Lovers and Richard Yea-and-Nay.
When was Love and Lucy written?
It dates from the early twentieth century, in the later part of Hewlett's career. By then he had moved from medieval romance to novels set in his own time.
The author
Maurice Hewlett
1861–1923 · English historical novelist
Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923) was a British novelist, poet and essayist. He was born in Weybridge, Surrey, and later lived in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, where he died. His novels include The Forest Lovers, published in 1898, and The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, published in 1900.
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