Word: ashburton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dyspepsia with tasty food, his dyspeptic humors with tasty compliments, sparkled wittily for his friends, never complained of poverty or the isolation of dismal winters on the godforsaken farm at Craigenputtock, kept her mouth shut when he was talking, swallowed her humiliation when he spent his evenings with Lady Ashburton, took a back seat for 40 years, and in the end convinced Victorian contemporaries that the Carlyle marriage was a gruff idyl. Her reward was the affectionate petname "Goody," the company of famous men, her husband's fame...