Sam’s Reviews > The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free > Status Update

I find the author’s choice to refer to married women by their husbands names… curious. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt? Is this Alva or Anne? Whichever it is - they are more than who they married and I dislike the reduction of them to some man’s wife. Especially jarring in a book about women being “set free” and women’s independence.