ABSTRACT
The newly married Emmeline, settling into her new home at 1 Drayton Terrace, Old Trafford, Manchester, was soon pregnant. Anxious to be a good wife and companion, she confided to Richard how conscious she felt about the gap between his erudition and her own limited knowledge, asking for his help and advice. Eager to please, Richard earnestly drew up a list of serious books for Emmeline to study, but the young lively wife found the course of instruction dull. She soon abandoned her plan for self-education and returned to reading fiction. All her life she was to remain a copious novel reader, cleverly and quickly skimming the pages to select what interested her, dealing with newspapers in the same manner.1 But it was an active rather than sedentary life that Emmeline’s ardent nature desired, and marriage to Richard soon enabled her to develop her powers in those causes in which she was already interested.
