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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...
2) The girls
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Belt Revivals
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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From the best-selling author of Giant and So Big, a sweeping look at the lives of three generations of women on Chicago's South Side. Part of Belt's Revivals series and with a new introduction by Kathleen Rooney (Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk). First published in 1921, Edna Ferber's The Girls revolves around the "three Charlottes" of the Thrift family-Great-Aunt Charlotte, her niece Lottie, and Lottie's niece Charley. All single "old maids," as the...
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