Harriet’s Secret: A Progressive Marriage in the 1890s

Harriet, young beautiful and intelligent, met the future doctor Percy on the train as she headed from Chicago to Baltimore women’s College. Her father, a staunch Christian, disapproved the progressive Ivy League suitor, but Percy finally won her hand in 1899 after 6 years of correspondence, but Percy became a doctor and an abortion and a small bureau called Hollywood for the film minister began and he and Harriet advocated for free sex and socialism in 1910s and 1920s. All looked well until Harriet grew love jealous of her husband‘s lovers, especially young dancers who lived next-door. Depression and bad health ensued, which led to an operation to remove a tumor but she really die from the operation. was it really an accident?Harriet, young beautiful and intelligent, met the future doctor Percy on the train as she headed from Chicago to Baltimore women’s College. Her father, a staunch Christian, disapproved the progressive Ivy League suitor, but Pe... Read more