Reddit mentions of Marriage As a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints, 20th Anniversary Edition: Revised and Expanded

No Man is an Island By Thomas Merton

Clowning in Rome By Henri Nouwen.

The Great Divorce By C.S. Lewis

Beginning to Pray By Archbishop Anthony Bloom

For the Life of the World By Fr Alexander Schmemann

Christ the Conqueror of Hell By Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev

Christ the Eternal Tao By Hieromonk Damascene

The Way of the Pilgrim

Marriage as a Path to Holiness-Lives of Married Saints By David and Mary Ford

On the Incarnation By St Athanasius

On Social Justice By St Basil the Great

The Ladder of Divine Ascent By St John Climacus

I'm currently trying to finish Fr Seraphim Rose- His Life and Works for the third time and despite my apparent inability to complete it, I really do enjoy it.

I don't know if I agree with you, in the Forward to the book "Marriage as a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints", Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia had this to say (paragraphs 7-9, page X):

>"Let marriage be held in honor among all" (Hebrews 13:4). In numerous ascetic groups on the margin of the Church during the early centuries, the married state was seen as incompatible with a full Christian commitment. Candidates for baptism, if as yet unmarried, were expected to remain celibate for the remainder of their life, while married couples were required to separate from one another before undergoing Christian initiation. But the Church as a whole, rejected the demands of these "encratite" movements, insisted that marriage is indeed a genuine path to holiness. Married couples, no less than monastics, can attain the fullness of theosis or "deification" in Christ.

>It is true that the Fathers, both Greek and Latin, regularly affirm that the monastic vocation, understood as an "angelic" or eschatological anticipation of the human condition after the resurrection (see Mark 12:25; Luke 20:35-36), is intrinsically higher than the married state. But this does not mean that marriage is not also to be "held in honor." Moreover, there are Patristic texts which suggest that the highest state, for each person individually, is always the particular state to which that person is specifically called.

>Once the great anchorite St Macarius of Egypt was told to journey to a certain city, where he would find two people more advanced on the spiritual way than he was. They turned out to be two married women, living with their husbands in the usual way. "Truely," exclaimed St Macarius with amazement, "there is neither virgin nor married, neither monk nor secular, but God gives His Holy Spirit to all, according to the intention of each" (Vitae Patrum VI, iii, 17). In the words of St Symeon the New Theologian "In every situation, whatever the work or task involved, it is the life lived for God and according to God that is wholly blessed" (Chapters iii, 65).

Saint John of Kronsdadt, though he lived a chaste marriage.

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There is a whole book dedicated to the lives of married saints, we have so many!

1. Synaxarion (I believe there are entries for at least the majority of the family; certainly St Basil in depth)
   
2. The Life of Macrina by St Gregory of Nyssa may be helpful as it goes more into Macrina and some other family members. I don't think Emelia is talked about extensively, but her life and upbringing is gone into more than perhaps in other works.
   
3. Not a book, just info about their feast day (Feast of the Holy Family of St Basil) and their icons. http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/01/feast-of-holy-family-of-saint-basil.html
   
4. A Saint Among Saints: A Sketch of the Life of St Emmelia. I've never read this, so I can't speak to its worth.
   
5. Marriage as a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints by David Ford. Includes Sts Emelia and Basil.
   
   
   Hope this helps. Good luck! I need to read some of these myself. Thanks for the research opportunity ;)