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Jane Ridley
English
Historian
Born:
May 15
,
1953
Families
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Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
Jane Ridley
Love
Marriage
Commitment
Seen
First
Attack
Lifetime
Longer
Reaction
Chemical
Said
Came
Brain
Being
Romantic
Romantic Love
Being In Love
Then
Who
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
Jane Ridley
Life
Work
Today
Battle
Stage
Down
Later
Recognised
Emerged
Adolescence
Only
Fact
Adulthood
Generational
New
Got
After
Happening
Psychologists
Transitional
Century
Twenties
Early
Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.
Jane Ridley
Politics
Political
Before
About
No-One
Written
Stuff
Dead
Read
Been
Familiar
Wants
Pages
Biography
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