Seems to have been a bit of a craze at the time.

I do wonder how much of that was America was not as hit as bad during World War One.

You know, I know Britain didn't have like on the ground action, but there was, you know, quite a bit, quite a bit lost during World War One in this post World War One era.

So World War I ends, what, in 1918? So this is written, you know, three years, four years later, you know? So there's a bit of this in Agatha Christie's very early works where many people didn't want to be in Britain because of how hard it was after the war there, you know, and the economic conditions so much.

And America boomed.

very much after World War I because that really started pushing our industry.

So the roaring 20s are just getting started in America.

So maybe I'm wrong to wish that she was more like some of Woodhouse's other heroines who are more sturdy and independent and admirable, because sometimes the true equality that women need to be as ridiculous as the men.