That night, he has another argument with his shrewish wife, Jane.
He sets about this reluctantly, under pressure from his shrewish and domineering wife.
The Lieutenant protested in the peevish voice of a shrewish young wife.
Daphne Pollard was featured, mostly as Oliver's shrewish wife.
The same is true of the perpetual jokes in comic papers about shrewish wives and henpecked husbands.
Of course, if he's just running away from a shrewish wife then it's his affair, and we drop it.
Another, more prosaic story claims that Wolfskehl wanted to leave as little as possible to his shrewish wife.
Instead of the shrewish, domineering wife Ian expected, she was Henry's chief support and his redemption.
This nonsense about the shrewish wife is just a male excuse to justify their doing what they want.
Among the earlier occupants are a philandering lawyer, his shrewish wife and their children's governess, who falls in love with him.