The Housekeeper of a World-Shattering Theory
Jenny Diski: Mrs Freud, 23 March 2006
Martha Freud: A Biography
by Katja Behling, translated by R.D.V. Glasgow.
Polity, 206 pp., £25, January 2006,0 7456 3338 2 Show More
by Katja Behling, translated by R.D.V. Glasgow.
Polity, 206 pp., £25, January 2006,
“... In the membership roll of the worshipful guild of enabling wives, the name of Martha Freud ranks with the greatest: Mrs Noah, Mrs Darwin, Mrs Marx, Mrs Joyce, Mrs Nabokov, Mrs Clinton, and their honorary fellows, Mr Woolf and Mr Cookson. Wives, of either sex, are what keep the universe orderly and quiet enough for the great to think their thoughts, complete their travels, write their books and change the world ... ”
