The actress, playwright and suffragist Cicely Hamilton examines marriage not as romance but as the one trade open to most women. She shows how girls are trained to please men rather than to develop their capacities, how unpaid wifehood and motherhood shape women’s character, and what the despised spinster tells us about the system.
A sharp, witty classic of Edwardian feminism that still reads as fresh polemic. Download the free EPUB.