Brewer's: Wives of Literary Men

The following literary men, among many others, made unhappy marriages:

ADDISON.

ARISTOTLE.

BACON (LORD).

BOCCACCIO.

BYRON.

DANTE.

DICKENS.

DURER (ALBERT).

EURIPIDES.

GARRICK.

HAYDN.

HOOKER.

LILLY (second wife).

LYTTON.

MILTON (first wife).

MOLIÈRE.

MORE.

PITTACUS.

RACLNE.

ROUSSEAU (J. J.).

SCALIGER (both wives)

SHAKESPEARE.

SHELLEY (first wife).

SOCRATES.

STEELK.

STERNE.

WYCHERLEY (first wife)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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