Though small, the museum was a nice display of clothing and home furnishings in the 18th century. The biggest thing that hit me, I think, was how obsessive they were about separating men and women from each other all the time. In one example, there was a contraption that spun around in a wall so that it faced only one of two rooms at a time so that the women could serve men food without seeing or speaking with them. Obsessive, I tell you. I want so badly to write about a woman
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