The Prescience of Alba De Céspedes’s “Her Side of The Story” – Chicago Review of Books

The Prescience of Alba De Céspedes’s “Her Side of The Story” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In 1948, Alba de Céspedes wrote to her friend, the acclaimed writer Natalia Ginzburg, of a specific kind of affliction that could befall the women of their time. They called it a “well,” a  “terrible melancholy” that women—still mostly confined to the domestic sphere in the immediate aftermath of WWII, not yet considered equal … Read more