Pragmatically they both got what they wanted. I'd say this was a very modern marriage.

Not that on-topic, yet the direct access page for the book [1] looks really rough style wise yet has fantastically annotated HTML. An inspect-element on the title and author block shows a ton of itemprop attributes and itemtype schema definitions for stuff as specific as alternative title information and author details including birth date and split first and last names. Downright aspirational levels of tagging, I wish that quality of care about metadata were everywhere on the web.

1: https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhous... (just linking here too to be specific)

Strange? That’s a classic gold digger-trophy wife relationship.

I don't think a 31 year-old woman, let alone a (gasp!) career-orientated woman could be perceived as a trophy wife in the late 19th century.

When the man is a dying 73 year old it does.