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AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN’S HOUR’Captivating . . . a brilliant many-layered social history of women’s ambition and a rapidly changing New York’ Observer’A fascinating look at a piece of forgotten female history’ Sunday Times’A treat, elegantly spinning a forgotten story of female liberation, ambition and self-invention’ Guardian’A deeply researched history, leavened with gossip . . . offers a full sweep of the changing status of American women in the twentieth century’ TLSWELCOME TO THE BARBIZON, NEW YORK’S PREMIER WOMEN-ONLY HOTELBuilt in 1927 as a home for the ‘Modern Woman’ seeking a career in the arts, the Barbizon became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and over the years, its 688 tiny floral ‘highly feminine boudoirs’ also housed Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly (notorious for sneaking in men), Joan Didion, Candice Ber

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