Sublime

He believed no “real lady” would ever drink beer or use Worcestershire sauce.

The only thing that Hill refused to give his family was more of himself, for he labored long hours into the night with only partial respites on weekends. Aside from rides behind his horse teams and occasional bird hunting, he permitted himself few diversions in his relentless drive to achieve wealth and status.

In 1934, laws were strengthened so that women deemed “inferior” were sterilized against their will, along with male juvenile delinquents.

Louisa went to work every day. I woke Gennie up whatever time I came over, cutting summer school, and we spent the next few hours deciding what she would wear, and who we were going to be for the world on that particular day. If we did not have something suitable, we stitched and pinned an assortment of wide skirts and kerchiefs into place. Since G

Peter Jacobsen, whose 1880 novel, Niels Lyhne,

She never suffered alone any more: the children suffered with her.