This Freedom

"This Freedom" by A. S. M. Hutchinson was published to controversy much controversy from the public. The book was seen by the women's rights movement as an anti-feminist novel. It tells the story of Rosalie who wants, above anything, freedom – freedom to live her life the way she sees fit, which is not quite the way women were supposed to be living around the turn of the century and the time of WWI. Rosalie loves to learn, and the older she gets, the more obvious her exceptionally bright, logical mind becomes. Her aspirations, however, eventually begin to crumble when she starts to dream too big.