The Husbands of Edith

"The Husbands of Edith" by George Barr McCutcheon is a humorous story from the early 1900s. It centers on Brock, an architect vacationing in Paris, who gets caught up in a strange situation with his friend Roxbury Medcroft and his wife, Edith. When Roxbury needs to rush off to Vienna for work, he convinces Brock to pretend to be him at an important gathering, sparking a series of mistaken identities and funny complications. Themes of friendship and mistaken identity drive the narrative as Brock reluctantly agrees to pose as Roxbury, leading to comical misunderstandings and unexpected problems, especially concerning Roxbury’s wife, Edith, and the couple’s relationship.