Penned at the height of the Romantic Era (1859), Frances Ellen Watkins's, "Two Offers", is a short story based on domestication, morale, and Christian values. During a time when men ruled in both society and in the home, how interesting for a woman to be presented with two life-altering offers. This story explores what the unfamiliar territory ‘choice’ was for women then and depicts the very motiv... goodreads.com