how Marjorie Hillis led a generation of women to live alone and like it
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Scutts, Joannna
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- alleenstaanden, steden, dagelijks leven, betaalde arbeid, etniciteit, feminisme, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Marjorie Hillis, daughter of a Brooklyn preacher, was poised for reinvention when she moved to the big city to start a life of her own. Gone were the days of the flirty flapper: ladies of Depression-era New York embraced a new icon: the independent working woman. Hillis was already a success at Vogue when she published a radical self-help book in 1936: Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker–esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcées, and “old maids” to shed derogatory labels and take control of their lives.