Big dresses speak of a refusal to blend in: a desire to stand up and be counted. In fact, you could call them the ultimate in womanspreading. Even in 2019, a supposed age of equality, women are still ‘expected’ to sit a certain way:[…]

A residual haunting may not be caused by trauma or violence, though.

I had a presentiment that this would be my last journey to the Continent for many a long day to come; this, as events turned out, proved all too correct. [This was published posthumously, the author died on 19 November 1942.]

the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty