Blanche's Relationship With Henry Barnet

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April white says, roland and henry barnet were very different. Roland was reserved and aloofHenry barnet was always smiling, cheerful and friendly. Blanche called him barney. It takes a couple of weeks before roland discovers this relationship. He first goes and confronts barney about it. But blanche is unhappy that he would go to barney. So she summons roland to her home to have this out with him. And she is not going to ie for what happened. She took off the mispo ring roland had given her, and she flings it across the room.

In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She brought a portrait of her parents, a vase for flowers, and her piano. She later said, “music had been my one absorbing interest,” and that she wasn’t interested in getting married. But eventually, she agreed to anyway. When she returned home from her honeymoon, she learned her husband was suspected of murder.

April White’s book is The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

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