If Walden was Thoreau’s flight from the market economy, it was, equally, a flight from women, from domesticity, from family life. He walked to town, nearly every day, to dine with friends; his mother often cooked for him…. Above all, he cherished his manly self-sufficiency (even though he carried his dirty laundry to Concord for his mother to wash.)
(from Jill Lapore, writing in the New Yorker)
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