Live Alone and Like It: The Classic Guide for the Single Woman

In this witty, engaging guide, a renowned Vogue editor takes readers through the fundamentals of living alone...
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Author: Marjorie Hillis
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Live Alone and Like It: The Classic Guide for the Single Woman by Hillis, Marjorie

Live Alone and Like It: The Classic Guide for the Single Woman

€25,24

Live Alone and Like It: The Classic Guide for the Single Woman

€25,24
Author: Marjorie Hillis
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In this witty, engaging guide, a renowned Vogue editor takes readers through the fundamentals of living alone by showing them how to create a welcoming environment and cultivate home-friendly hobbies, "for no woman can accept an invitation every night without coming to grief."

"Whether you view your one-woman ménage as Doom or Adventure, you need a plan, if you are going to make the best of it."

Thus begins Marjorie Hillis' archly funny, gently prescriptive manifesto for single women. Though it was 1936 when the Vogue editor first shared her wisdom with her fellow singletons, the tome has been passed lovingly through the generations, and is even more apt today than when it was first published. Hillis, a true bon vivant, was sick and tired of hearing single women carping about their living arrangements and lonely lives; this book is her invaluable wake-up call for single women to take control and enjoy their circumstances.

With engaging chapter titles like "A Lady and Her Liquor" and "The Pleasures of a Single Bed," along with a new preface by author Laurie Graff (You Have to Kiss A Lot of Frogs), Live Alone and Like It is sure to appeal to live-aloners--and those considering taking the plunge.

Author: Marjorie Hillis
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780446178228


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/07/2008 pg. 55
Newsweek 05/26/2008 pg. 48

About the Author
Marjorie Hillis (1889-1971) worked for Vogue for over twenty years, beginning her career as a captions writer for the pattern book and working her way up to assistant editor of the magazine itself. She was one of a growing number of independent, professional women who lived alone by choice. In 1936 she wrote Live Alone and Like It, the superlative guide for 'bachelor ladies' (who became known as 'live-aloners'). It was an instant bestseller.

Three years after the book's publication, at the age of forty-nine, Ms. Hillis bid a fond farewell to the live-aloners by marrying Mr. T.H. Roulston.

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