A Ring and a Bottle
Episode #193
2022-07-22 05:00:18
In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She brought a portrait of her parents, a vase for flowers, and her piano. She later said, “music had been my one absorbing interest,” and that she wasn’t interested in getting married. But eventually, she agreed to anyway. When she returned home from her honeymoon, she learned her husband was suspected of murder.
April White’s book is The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier