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Review of ‘Private Life’

By 1880s American standards, Margaret Mayfield is an old maid. Both her sisters have married and are starting families of their own, but Margaret, plain and quiet at 27, seems destined for a life at home with her mother.

While riding her bicycle in the fields outside her Missouri town, she meets Captain Andrew Jackson…

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