The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free

[An] insightful, well-written account…[Bren] details the lives of some of the Barbizon's most well-known residents, including Molly Brown, Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and Joan Didion, and provides historical context about midcentury single women, careers, and sex…A must read for anyone interested in the history of 20th-century women's lives, fashion, publishing, and New York.