Dan Keefer's Reviews > Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott

I would have given this extremely interesting bio 5 stars, but it ended much like the last decade of Ursula Parrot life. I suppose it's fitting in the sense that both slowly dwindled in this riches-richer-rags story, but as often the case, one's decline is far less inspiring than one's heyday. Parrott's gift for writing made her extremely rich with her opus Ex-Wife published in 1929, but one gift is often counterbalanced my a private weakness or two. As the title suggests, even her greatest works, of which there were many, are forgotten. Unlike Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Parrott wrote mostly about the New Woman who was told she could "have it all" which was largely a lie, as she proved with her own life. This bio is an interesting look at the first "career women" who proved they could more than survive in a "man's world". But at what cost? It's a great read for all genders and walks-of-lives.