Nicole Kidman, looking prim in a Grace Kelly hairdo, is the tense Channel Islands war wife, bringing up two children in a dark, fog-shrouded house.
(One incisive 5- or 6-year-old critic did pipe up during the closing credits, asking, "Why wasn't it in 3-D?") The hapless parent in need of the nanny's help, a widower played by Colin Firth in the original, is now a war wife struggling to keep the farm going and is played by the American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.
The menage at Rose Cottage, consisting of two young war wives, a cook and four children.
The New Yorker, December 4, 1943 P. 35 The menage at Rose Cottage, consisting of two young war wives, a cook and four children.
By Sylvia Townsend Warner The New Yorker, December 4, 1943 P. 35 The menage at Rose Cottage, consisting of two young war wives, a cook and four children.
"I never thought of Ed as attractive or anything more than my husband's boss," said Ms. McCoy, 31, who remembered being stationed with her husband in Germany and having had occasion to interact with Sergeant Rossman through a support group she came to lead that sought to help war wives and their children.
Henrietta, then on the cusp of 30, returned to the work force, as did many war wives.
Get out tatty uniform (pre-war) wife put away in loft (anag.; u + anag. less w).
She attended the New York art shows on the arm of her art-historian husband, Robert Goldwater, like any smiling post-war wife, and brought up three sons placidly on huge bottles of milk, while thinking of the delicious fear induced by milk seeping from the mother, water from the earth, saliva from the snail, lava from the volcano.
He remained active in radio, voicing occasional classics like the short-lived but well-remembered "The Bickersons" with Frances Langford as his ever-warring wife.
Lina graduated high school at the age of 16 and within two years of graduating, she became a "war-wife" and saw her husband immediately sent overseas.
