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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York, late 1912. Around the plain wooden tables of Polly's Restaurant in Greenwich Village a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world. It was the first meeting of "Heterodoxy," a secret supper club. The goals of the group were simple: they would meet to talk about their lives, their politics, and the still-not widely recognized idea that women were fundamentally equal to men. The women of Heterodoxy...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1936, Marjorie Hillis published the best-selling Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman, the first self-help manual for single women. Scutts examines Hillis's life from her childhood as the daughter of a famed Presbyterian minister in Brooklyn to her journalism career as an editor at Vogue. Scutts also covers a history of single working women, particularly in New York, and other popular self-help and cookbooks that rode on Hillis's...
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