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It reminds me of the steady progress of Route 50 out towards The British Pantry and the construction of town houses that goes with it. I know people need places to live, but it’s horrid all the same.

She also hated creeping urbanization, just as I do. “The ugly little streets crawled further and further out of the town eating up the green country like greedy yellow caterpillars.” She attributed this blight to greed and lamented: “It is curious that nearly all fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones.”

And her sweeping dresses generally were made out of Liberty fabrics. I remember buying a Liberty print when I was in London and making a lovely dress with pin tucks a down the top of the bodice.

Three points that stand out: her Socialism, her uncorseted figure, and her promiscuity.

It’s also odd the way she throws in biographic sketches of other people.

One thing I would say so far is that Fitzsimons refers constantly to the work of, not only Nesbit, but numerous other authors in a way that shows she expects us to have read it!