Excerpt from The Upholstered Cage
THIS book is based on two addresses I gave in London in the spring of this year; the keynote of the subject being the position of the unmarried girl of leisure living in the home of her parents.
From my platform I drew a bow at a venture, but I soon learnt how straight the shaft hit the target by the many, many letters I subsequently received from girls and women all over the world - but chiefly from girls in England - the sum and substance of these letters always being: Thank God, someone at last to come forward and speak up.
I am dealing in this book with just one class of girl: the daughters of men of moderate means, professional men, clergymen, business men, army and navy officers - in fact, the great backbone of the country. I also include what is known as 'county'; there are many dreary lives being led by women whose parents have a status in their own county. There are also the homes where everything is done for the benefit of the sons, where economies are made on the daughters so that the boys may have the careers of gentlemen.
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