The home-maker (1924)

An immediate bestseller in 1924, The Home-Maker has acquired a further life through Persephone’s recovery of neglected domestic fiction. An unhappy mother and an unhappy breadwinner discover that their allotted roles do not match their abilities. The family’s children have inner lives of their own, which keeps the argument from becoming a simple diagram. A useful reissue for discussing who gets called naturally suited to care.