Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three Acts

The Faraday family has marriage on the brain, and younger daughter Phyllis is desperate to secure her future before her older sister Celia does. There's just one problem: everyone assumes Celia, at twenty-eight, is firmly on the shelf, a spinster beyond saving. When Celia arrives home one evening, rain-soaked and unapologetically herself, the family's comfortable assumptions begin to crack. Phyllis has her eye on the agreeable Bobby Tarver, but Celia's mere presence throws the household into chaos. What follows is a sparkling comedy of manners where the sister everyone discounts may be the only one who truly understands what she wants. Mason writes with sharp wit about the absurdities of early twentieth-century marriage culture, where a woman's worth is measured in wedding bells and the clock is always ticking louder for the eldest daughter.