1909
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Three Thanksgivings
B-
This is the first story in the collection where Gilman offers a how-to for economic independence. Not that that many women are lucky enough to be the daughters of popular senators and/or the wives of popular ministers, with a big old house in good condition, but Gilman does offer a plausible method for Mrs. Morrison, a 50-year-old widow, to clear her mortgage and thus dismiss an unwanted suitor and avoid living with her grown-up children. No twist ending here, just an inevitable and satisfying conclusion.
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