Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine,  5 (1856–57), 289–92.

The Bridal Pledge

Anon

Genre:

Short Fiction

Subjects:

Providence, Natural Law, Heredity, Mental Illness


    The narrator hears 'the medical student' Harry Huntley explaining to an artist, George Gray, that 'children of first cousins are commonly instruments in the hands of Providence to punish the unwisdom [...] of their parents, in violating the laws of nature'. To a baffled Gray, Huntley adds that 'a great portion of the inmates of deaf, dumb, and blind asylums, are the offspring of such marriages'. Huntley convinces Gray that the woman of whom he is enamoured, Mary Ryder, fits this description. (290)



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