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A review by han_cat
The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby
5.0
Absolutely loved this book, it is just stunning. Serious yet witty, it is a perfect examination of human lives. Beautifully written, perfectly imagined.
The closer I got to the ending, I worried that it would end in an unsatisfactory way. But the author knew her objectives and purpose in the story, and was not swayed by the easy or cliche choice.
Also worth mentioning it is a very useful text if you want to understand just how simple the womens liberation movement was at the beginning. Forget feminism this 20s book illustrates perfectly the tiny bit of equality women strove to achieve and how difficult and costly it was to get.
The closer I got to the ending, I worried that it would end in an unsatisfactory way. But the author knew her objectives and purpose in the story, and was not swayed by the easy or cliche choice.
Also worth mentioning it is a very useful text if you want to understand just how simple the womens liberation movement was at the beginning. Forget feminism this 20s book illustrates perfectly the tiny bit of equality women strove to achieve and how difficult and costly it was to get.