





Purposeful matches
…the intellectual and social ambitions of women who defy the conformist sensibility of a pre-railroad provincial town.

So many capacities
…Terry Tempest Williams links flight to heaven, and both to her abiding faith.







Self-consequence
…we hear expressed the desire for gentility, annuities, attachment, matrimony.




Read Dickens again
…decisions matter and we are pulled into the fraught consequences of choices avoided.

