Week three of The Enchanted April has me wondering:
Why did Mrs. Wilkins, a woman so eager to escape her dreary life, invite her husband to join her after only a few days away?
Is Mrs. Arbuthnot in the throes of a nineteenth-century midlife crisis?
Who was the “love” Lady Caroline lost in the war, and is her holiday a chance to grieve her loss?
And why does a woman as wealthy as Mrs. Fisher get her underthings in such a bundle over every shilling spent?
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