Leo T. reviewed on 6/18/2014 + 1775 more book reviews

"Mrs. Varden, in Barnaby Rudge (1841) is a telling picture of the apparently ideal wife who actually manages to torment her entire household, her good-natured and inoffensive husband in particular, by her whining and perversity. In all superficial aspects she is a model wife a good-looking woman, a devout Protestant, a fanatical housekeeper whose cleaning proceeds from Monday morning through Saturday afternoon." Index and footnotes.

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