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This book tells us how married women were expected to find fulfillment solely within the family sphere, a domain offering a measure of small and peculiar satisfactions. But beneath the dominion of husband, kitchen, children, and home, the unique and exclusive personality of women still beats, women who, when the moment arrives, will recognize the sign reserved for each of them. One fell in love with the sea and sought it out, another gave birth in the hospital and abandoned her husband, who was in love with the doctor, another found her old first love in the top of a tree...