Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
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Marriage bills, misplaced compliments and the gap between courtship and married life supply Helen Rowland with a steady stream of jokes. This collection of brief observations speaks in the voice of a bachelor girl, turning familiar claims about love into sharp little reversals. Husbands, wives, admirers and single women all come under scrutiny, with money, clothes, vanity and everyday household habits providing much of the material.
The pieces often last only a sentence or two, using comparisons drawn from shopping, cooking, games and domestic machinery. Rowland repeatedly sets romantic promises beside the practical demands that follow them, and points to the unequal freedoms men and women expect within marriage.
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Book facts
- Author
- Helen Rowland
- Reading time
- About 1 hour
- Pages
- 74
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Satire
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online