Thereafter follows a chapter narrated by Addie herself ( it is not made clear whether she is speaking from beyond the grave or this chapter represents her deathbed thoughts and is placed out of chronology )) recalling events from her life: her loveless marriage to Anse ; her affair with the local minister, Whitfield, which led to Jewel ’ s conception ; and the birth of her various children.

In June 1705, Queen Sophia Charlotte's nephew, George Augustus, the electoral prince of Hanover, visited the Ansbach court, supposedly " incognito ", to inspect Caroline, as his father the Elector did not want his son to enter into a loveless arranged marriage as he himself had.

came out of his coma, Cruz, would also find himself in a loveless marriage to another person.

Bruno's upbringing is much more tragic as described: shuffled and forgotten from one abusive boarding school to another, he eventually finds himself in a loveless marriage and teaching at a high school.

Larsson portrays him as a loveless man lacking self-control ; he drank, ranted and raved, and incurred lifelong anger of his son through his outburst, " I curse the day you were born ".

Before her own marriage, Stone felt that women should be allowed to divorce drunken husbands, to formally end a " loveless marriage " so that " a true love may grow up in the soul of the injured one from the full enjoyment of which no legal bond had a right to keep her ... Whatever is pure and holy, not only has a right to be, but it has a right also to be recognized, and further, I think it has no right not to be recognized.

" If one young girl is kept from a loveless, mistaken marriage, if one frivolous nature is checked in her career of flirtation by remembrance of Lady Morris, I shall perhaps be forgiven by the public for raising my feeble voice in answer to the The Woman Who Did ,"

George was dismayed at her popularity and his own unpopularity, and felt trapped in a loveless marriage with a woman he loathed.

This marriage had been forced upon them and was rather loveless, though they supposedly consummated it and interacted often enough to produce three sons.

His personal life became stressful ; his marriage to Bettina was loveless, and effectively broke down altogether in the years of illness and relative poverty towards the end of his life.

Lyrically, the old romantic view of love was largely banished, with tracks such as " Modestic " and " Three Star Compartment " portraying people trapped in loveless relationships and " Sperm Meets Egg, So What?

It looked, for some time, as if he might remain typecast in sinister roles, but he was offered a part in a farcical comedy by the writer John Sullivan, which saw Bates as the loveable but loveless central character among a singles group, with each of its members looking for that perfect but ever elusive partner.

She, however, dabbled in the black arts, and theirs was a loveless match ; so Tarannon sent her on a ship back to the south.

Since Phil and Erica do not conceive their baby for love, they are " rewarded " with a miscarriage, which was typical of loveless unions in that time.

Her mother returns only to cut off a piece of her flesh to cook a soup in hopes of healing An-Mei's grandmother, though An-Mei's grandmother still dies. Lindo Jong explains how in childhood she was forced into a loveless marriage and was pressured by her mother-in-law's desire for Lindo to produce grandchildren.

Hope then spent most of the summer of 1984 trapped in a loveless marriage to Larry, but was successfully able to keep the marriage from being consummated by claiming that she was pregnant with Bo's child ( Hope was in fact still a virgin at this point as her and Bo's previous attempts to make love had been interrupted ), while meeting Bo in secret and reaffirming that her love was for him.

She was willing to live a sham for a while, but broke it off when she realized she couldn't bring a child into a loveless marriage.

Their marriage had become loveless by the time Radcliffe was born, and after his father died, his mother did her best to " shape " Radcliffe into her ideal of a man, which he vehemently resisted.

Despite their marriage lasting thirty-four years, it was childless and apparently loveless.

We are told, " In the cold, loveless and altogether hideous life of the Techultli, his admiration and affection for the invaders from the outer world formed a warm, human oasis, constituted a tie that connected him with a more natural humanity that was totally lacking in his fellows, whose only emotions were hate, lust and the urge of sadistic cruelty.

At that time, Ivy was trapped in a loveless marriage to Julian Crane, son of ruthless billionaire Alistair Crane ; her one joy was her son, Ethan Crane, the product of her adulterous affair with teenage love and new chief of police Sam Bennett on her wedding night.

Though their marriage was loveless, they did occasionally experience brief bursts of passion, eventually producing four children together — son Ethan in 1975, daughter Fancy in 1980, son Nicholas Foxworth, and daughter Pretty.

The marriage was both loveless and childless, unlike that of George's brother James, and it is possible that this was a cause of friction between the two brothers.

Vincent Canby had little good to say about the film in the New York Times of 4 February 1972, describing it as " a loveless, passionless costume drama ".

The boy then became father of Gerd, while Brand is the result of the other, clearly loveless affair.

In reality, the butler has never been to Africa and is stuck in a loveless marriage, while dreaming of happiness with a younger woman ( whom he tells Phillipe is his niece after the boy finds them together ).

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.

Their loveless marriage lasted until 1356.

She then tells Ben that she cannot return to their loveless marriage.

She is charitable enough to pity Edward for being held to a loveless engagement by his gentlemanly honour.

Women who married in the United States during the 19th century were bound into the unions, whether loveless or not, with few options to escape.

In the throes of the First World War, Nicholas II allowed his sister Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia to end her loveless marriage to her social equal, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, and quietly marry commoner Colonel Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky.

Having a child will secure McClure's casting as McBain's sidekick in McBain IV: Fatal Discharge, but Selma is unwilling to bring a child into a loveless relationship and decides to leave McClure.

Sternwood mentions his other, older daughter Vivian, who is in a loveless marriage with a man named Rusty Regan, who has disappeared.

Soon, Chris becomes enamored of her because his loveless marriage is tormented by his shrewish wife Adele ( Rosalind Ivan ), who idolizes her former husband, a policeman drowned while trying to save a woman.

His life is empty, petty and loveless.

Jessie's father is dead ; she is epileptic and unemployable, her loveless marriage ended in divorce ; her absent son is a petty thief and ne ' er-do-well ; her last job didn't work out and, in general, her life is stale and unprofitable.

She becomes pregnant with his child, but, when Trippy dies in France, she states she is " stuck " with Job, and the marriage then becomes wholly loveless, continuing only for the child's sake.

Come Back, Little Sheba ( 1952 ) is a drama film produced by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house.

By James ' third year his mother and five of his siblings had died of consumption, leaving James to what biographer Herbert Paul describes as a " loveless, cheerless boyhood " with his cold, disciplinarian father and brother Richard.

Tina Balser is in a loveless marriage with Jonathan, an insufferable, social-climbing lawyer in New York City.

Other members of the Gracchi family were also accused ; Scipio had been in a loveless marriage to the deformed and barren Sempronia, sister of the Gracchi brothers and daughter of their mother Cornelia.

Her marriage to the Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough became an international emblem of the socially advantageous, but loveless marriages common during the Gilded Age.

In her first novel, Mary: A Fiction written in 1788, the heroine is forced into a loveless marriage for economic reasons.