Little Stories of Married Life

Eleven sharp, observant stories dissect the small wars and quiet triumphs of marriage at the turn of the twentieth century. Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting captures the friction between lovers, the unspoken negotiations between husbands and wives, and the moments when love survives or falters under the weight of daily life. Whether following a couple through courtship, the chaos of a wedding, or the settling into married routine, these stories reveal the comedy hidden in domestic tension and the tenderness that persists beneath arguments about housekeeping and jealousy. Cutting writes with wit and compassion about women navigating the only career society permitted them: managing a home and a husband. These are not grand romances but something more honest: portraits of real people trying to build a life together, failing, adapting, and sometimes finding unexpected grace in the attempt.