a dime for Dickens, fifteen cents for Nietzsche and Kant and Darwin. It had not been an easy way to augment her allowance: Even when she raised the ante to twenty-five cents with a licking thrown in, I couldnt read Tolstoy, or Hardy or Thackeray either, for that matter. By the time she repeated this story, in letters to appreciative fans and reviewers, Mitchell was easing into her role of Good Ol Girl of the bestseller lists, explaining why her Scarlett could not have been indebted to Becky Sharp: she hadnt read Vanity Fair until 1935
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Press this lightly and well call it Crease C
OVERALL STATS Project Type: Commission for a Client Estimated Time: 70 Hours Actual Time: 195 Hours Estimated Materials Budget: $465 Actual Materials Cost: $490 Organizational Note : I debated on whether to write this in the order I did all of the steps (which is VERY sporadic - worked on the blouse here, worked on the corset there, ran to the store) but I thought it might be more helpful for others if I kept each piece in its own section
What landed hardest for me, though, were two things: First, the kids return with no police or neighbors in tow
