Three Girls in a Flat

Chicago, 1893. Three young women share a cramped flat and an audacious ambition: to carve their names in a world built by men. The Duke (a young sculptor named Enid Yandell, who studied with Rodin himself), Virginia, and Marjorie navigate the brutal demands of the World's Columbian Exposition where their sculpture work hangs in the Horticultural Building. Between long days shaping marble and plaster, they host lively social gatherings in their tiny apartment, trade barbs with colorful neighbors, and receive an ever-rotating cast of young male callers hoping to catch their attention. Written by Yandell with two friends, this episodic gem captures something precious: the rare, fragile freedom of women who refused to wait at home. It's a window into a vanished Chicago, yes, but also into the fierce joy and hard-won independence of three artists building lives on their own terms.