Maggie too works diligently and craftily on her husband's behalf, planting ideas that he takes for his own. John has become a financial expert, and is for the country dropping the gold standard , which is against the policy of his Labour Party. When the influential politician Charles Venables Henry Stephenson comes to sound him out, Maggie sees him first and takes it upon herself to state that John would resign from the party rather than betray his principles. Matters finally come to a head on the Shands' second wedding anniversary, with John telling Maggie and her family that he and Lady Sybil are in love.
He insists on writing a letter of resignation from Parliament.
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Maggie persuades him to postpone their public separation for a month so he can finish writing his book. She arranges for him to stay at the estate of her good friend, la Contessa; secretly, she also asks la Contessa to invite Lady Sybil as well.
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Things turn out the way she had hoped: John and Lady Sybil's ardor does not survive having to spend an entire month together. Meanwhile, Maggie goes to see Venables. She presents him with John's letter, telling him that her husband has resigned over the gold standard. Venables is so impressed he offers John an important post in the coalition government he is forming.
When John finds out what Maggie has done, he is somewhat offended. A social satire set in England and Scotland during the early 20th century, What Every Woman Knows centers around plain, spinsterish Maggie Wylie and John Shand, an ambitious young student, who promises to marry Maggie after five years if she agrees and if her family pays for his education. Years later, following his successful bid for a seat in Parliament, Shand keeps his A social satire set in England and Scotland during the early 20th century, What Every Woman Knows centers around plain, spinsterish Maggie Wylie and John Shand, an ambitious young student, who promises to marry Maggie after five years if she agrees and if her family pays for his education.
Years later, following his successful bid for a seat in Parliament, Shand keeps his word. But trouble lies ahead. Attractive woman are drawn to the Scottish politician — in particular, the lovely Lady Sybil Tenterden. Moreover, Shand's speeches in Parliament, which had won him great popularity for their flashes of humor, begin to suffer when his wife no longer helps write them. Soon, both Shand's career and marriage are in jeopardy. First produced in , What Every Woman Knows is considered one of Barrie's most realistic and important theatrical works.
Graced with bursts of sly wit and dramatic irony, it will delight a new generation of readers and theater lovers alike.
Paperback , 80 pages. Published April 22nd by Dover Publications first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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To ask other readers questions about What Every Woman Knows , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about What Every Woman Knows. Lists with This Book. Oct 21, M. I mean, the way women are portrayed here are so petty. Maggie has charge of her life at the very end. He is ashamed to know that she is the reason behind his success, at the end he still is ashamed and Maggie is okay with it as long as they are still married.
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Also I am absolutely aghast that the edition I had did not include the last page where the title comes to play. On another note, it was funny. Jun 16, Mimi rated it liked it Shelves: My comments on this story contain a few spoilers, I placed warnings above the particular paragraphs.
Also, I categorized this as a 'Funny Read'. It's not a split-your-sides, laugh-out-loud read, but it is rather witty, once you get into it. So I started reading this knowing nothing about the book, except that it was written by the bloke who wrote Peter Pan Mind you, I wasn't expecting something like the boy who didn't want to grow up. In short, it's about a man who, in order to be able to pay for his education to become a minister and later has even political ambitions , promisses to wed a girl who's a few years older than him.
In return, her family pays for his education. Years later, he's in politics, they're married and he falls in love with another woman. Also, it turns out his speeches ar not that great, without the delicate help from his wife I won't tell whom he'll end up with. It took me forever to read these 80 pages well, about 3 days, really. But I only managed to read a couple of pages at a time, so it felt like ages.
What kept tripping my reading flow up the first couple of pages was the 'dambrod', mainly because the Dutch word is 'dambord'. But, it turned out to be a really interesting, and fairly funny read, once you get used to the form it's written more or less like a play, with sort-of stage instructions.
I did have a hard time figuring out Maggie. Did she just have an inferiority complex? Or was she just madly in love with John? Or was she an ambitious woman? I thought it was a shame Barrie didn't delve a bit deeper into her motives for standing by John like she does. On the other hand, it might be interpreted as part of 'the mystery that is woman', and part of the answer to the queastion the title raises This novella is food for thought, really, and definately worth a read!
Apr 16, David Alexander rated it really liked it. Barrie's play "What Every Woman Knows," I experienced a similar feeling I have had approaching other classics, the feeling of approaching a land teeming with life, fraught with bursting-over-the-bounds spiritedness, and of arriving there from an place where life has been depopulated and extinguished to a great degree.
The inventor of Peter Pan, Barrie writes here a play for adults with great humor and insight. Even in the stage setting notes those not meant to be spoken in the perf Reading J. Even in the stage setting notes those not meant to be spoken in the performance of the play he is constantly making jokes.
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A major theme of the play is the relations of men and women. It is decidedly a view outside today's mainstream, where Justice and Equality abolish gender and drive its observation underground. How just is our Justice? Shouldn't we update our justice to ask why we are failing boys in our society and regarding it as a moral accomplishment while we are doing it? I am not very comfortable with aspects of Maggie and John's relationship, not just John's veering towards adultery but also Maggie's stroking his male ego by helping his speech writing in such a way that he thinks he thought it all up himself.
It seems to me she should not mask her contribution from him. The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials. We Live Again Careful, Soft Shoulders Broadway Melody of Such Good Friends Wings and the Woman Edit Cast Complete credited cast: Maggie Wylie Brian Aherne John Shand Madge Evans Lady Sybil Tenterden Lucile Watson La Contessa la Brierre Dudley Digges James Wylie Donald Crisp David Wylie David Torrence Alick Wylie Henry Stephenson Edit Storyline The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five years.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - W. Mono Western Electric Sound System. Edit Did You Know? There were three Broadway revivals in , and Helen Hayes starred in the revival. That's the way I like to hear you talk.
A young Scotsman turned loose on the world with three hundred pounds. What could he not do? It's appalling to think of.