![]() ![]() According to Hillis, singledom for women could be glamorous, fulfilling and exciting, just as it was often presumed to be for men. Live Alone and Like It was in its sixth printing by the end of the month, and at the end of the calendar year, the author's royalties were just shy of $10,000-which would be close to $200,000 today. Hillis was richly rewarded for tending to this gap in the market with such verve and dignity. ![]() The United States was still mired in the Depression, and while many self-improvement books targeted men with lessons of self-reliance that insinuated only they (and not a terrifyingly unstable economy) were the masters of their destiny, few writers bothered to address women, let alone single ones. ![]() In August 1936, Marjorie Hillis-a forty-seven-year-old, never-married minister's daughter working at Vogue-released her first book, a self-help guide titled Live Alone and Like It: A guide for the extra woman. How Marjorie Hillis led a generation of women to live alone and like itģ36pp. ![]()
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