""The Afternoon of Unmarried Life"" is a novel written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and published in 1859. The story revolves around a group of unmarried women who gather together at a country house for an afternoon of leisure and conversation. The women come from different walks of life and have different experiences, but they all share a common bond of being unmarried and facing societal pressures to marry. Throughout the afternoon, they discuss...