AUTHORS' VIEWS CLASH

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 20

AUTHORS' VIEWS CLASH

MARRIAGE AND CAREERS,

Virginia Sackville-West, English novelist, and her husband, Harold G. Nicolson, also an author and a former member of tho British diplomatic service, told a large audience in the Brooklyn Academy of Music where they agreed and disagreed on marriage and divorce (states a writer in the London "Times"). They agreed that women could have careers "and still bo married" and they thought divorce should be easier than it is. They spoke under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, -with Carl Van Doren presiding.

Mr. Nieolson's remarks on careers for married women had a conditional clause that evoked his wife's opposition. He said that if it became necessary for"'the husband or wife to give up a career for the sake oi their home, the woman should be tho one to make the sacrifice. Miss Saekville-West retorted that she believed women should have j equal rights with men. .

Mr. Nicolson argued that a woman could be happy immersed in tho affairs of the home, but a man could not, and that a man could look upon hia children in the same fashion as an uncle, but a woman could not look upon them as would an aunt. ■ ■