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Displaced homemakers

Here are entered works on homemakers displaced in their middle years from their family role and left without any source of financial security through divorce, the death of the spouse, or the loss of family income.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Homemakers

• Divorced women

• Displaced homemakers -- United States

• Displaced Homemakers: Programs and Policy (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ex-Wife (New York: J. Cape and H. Smith, 1929), by Ursula Parrott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)

• Stella Dallas: A Novel (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Olive Higgins Prouty (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Quest for Security: Employees, Tenants, Wives (Hamlyn Lectures, #34; London: Stevens and Sons, 1982), by Tony Honoré (PDF in the UK)

• Families Without Fatherhood (third edition, c2000), by Norman Dennis and George Erdos, contrib. by A. H. Halsey and Peter Saunders (PDF at Civitas)

• The Interior Life (with other writings; originally published 1990 under "Katherine Blake" pseudonym; revised version c2016), by Dorothy J. Heydt (multiple formats with commentary at kithrup.com)
• Princess of Wands (included on the Unto the Breach Baen CD image; c2006), by John Ringo
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB

• The Angel Over the Right Shoulder, or the Beginning of a New Year (1852), by H. Trusta (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945 (originally published 1989; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Phyllis M. Palmer, contrib. by Vanessa H. May (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)