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roast beef medium is actually very humorous with insightful looks into life and morals. i enjoyed the female main character. she seems like she breaks the mold of what a female character should have been at the time of publication. i’d be interested in reading more in this series and from this author.

Though written more than 100 years ago, the Emma McChesney stories hold up remarkably well. There is a reason they were among the most popular fiction of their time. Fashions have changed, the traveling salesperson is a thing of the past, and social expectations for women have evolved, but the problems Emma faces, from sexual harassment to being underestimated by male colleagues to struggling to balance work and family, remain very relevant. Through it all she is strong-willed and optimistic, outspoken and uncompromising. A character to root for.