A Woman's Path to Liberation

Placed #410 in Chicklit
This story is a fictional, but historically accurate story told through the eyes
of a woman who finds feminism.

I researched all of the geography, created elaborate backstories for each of the characters, looked at time period specific cars, homes, prices, jobs, wages, median marriage age, popular first and last names of men and women, women in in the workforce, average household income, monthly expenditures, average family size.

And that was just to write the first few pages. All of the businesses - the paper and the bank - are real and were open at the time of my story.

I had to research massive woman's feminism timelines and go to the library to look at slang.
I watched I Love Lucy and other time period specific stories to get a feel for how she was going to speak. I looked at hundreds of advertising campaigns, clothing, and sex appeals in advertising to use with Sharon's obsession with fashion and indoctrination by these ads in her favorite magazines.

Pretty fun to write and learn about this time period in history. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did writing it.