" My grandfather had given me Mr. Darwin's book to read. He had given me the possibility of a different kind of life. but none of it mattered. Instead there was The Science of Housewifery for me. I was blind; I was pathetic. The century was about to change, but my own little life would not change with it. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)