Thursday, March 22, 2012

Old Mrs. Crosley

1911
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Old Mrs. Crosley
B-

The title character is in her early 50s, as Gilman was at the time.  Mrs. Crosley's children are grown and she doesn't know what to do with her time.  Despite the initial objections of her children and husband, she starts an employment agency, which is of course a success.  (Small businesses are always much more successful in Gilman's world than in real life.)  This is less of a how-to-start-your-own-business story and more about the initial restlessness.

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