A Ring and a Bottle

In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in
Gramercy Park, in New York City. She brought a portrait of her
parents, a vase for flowers, and her piano. She later said, “music
had been my one absorbing interest,” and that she wasn’t interested
in getting married. But eventually, she agreed to anyway. When she
returned home from her honeymoon, she learned her husband was
suspected of murder. April White’s book is The Divorce Colony: How
Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American
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