It begins with a racket in the house: the narrator hauling her big trunk down from the garret herself, rather than wait three days for her long-suffering companion Halicarnassus to do it. What follows is a holiday journey told in six parts, full of quarrelsome banter and asides, closed by essays such as “A Call to My Countrywomen” and “A Spasm of Sense.”
Mid-century American humour from one of the most outspoken women essayists of her day, Mary Abigail Dodge. Download the free EPUB.