Sifting, Sorting, Starting Over

Swell Dame Rumer Godden

Sifting, Sorting, Starting Over: On Women and Storage

Swell Dame Rumer Godden

Between the Home set up in Eden,
and the Home before us in Eternity,
stand the Homes of Earth in long succession.

--Julia McNair Wright
(The Complete Home, 1879)

There’s a fair chance that by the time a woman is 40, she will have moved house at least seven times in her life.  Some …