And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

The theory that women should only be asked to do work that was safe and relatively mundane was ignored whenever something risky or difficult actually needed to be done.

Reality does not go away when it is ignored