Marriage

My husband taught me how to put on lipstick.

That should have been a sign.

Priviledge and Scandal

I’m reading a fun book that I got at the L-I-B-R-A-R-Y. Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana, by Janet Gleeson.

The allowance that a rich married women got to spend, even if she brought the money to the marriage, was called “pin money.”

18th-century women called their periods, "the prince."

Someday my prince will come and someday my prince will go, forever.

Will You Marry Me?

No more schoolteachers marrying stockbrokers in the New York Times society page this Fall. No, these are heavy hitting news producers, lawyers and doctors. One in particular made me swoon. An Oxford educated ballerina who worked in the U.S. Attorney’s office until she got married. Oh, before getting her masters in economic and social history at Oxford, she graduated with honors from Harvard and then got a law degree from Yale. And she’s beautiful. What does her husband do? Who cares?