The boarding house/hotel era, as we learned from the novel, was a relatively short era in women’s history. What did you think of the women who chose to live this way? There’s been a lot of public discussion recently about some women’s desires to return to the tradwife life, and, as you might expect, there have been inexplicable questions about whether o…
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