SIZE DOES NOT MATTER (MISS MATTIE ENCOUNTERS THE CHAIN BOOKSTORE)

A new bookstore is always good news, and Larnaca has its own Public! We are the last city in Cyprus to get it - last but not least (I hope 😀

Public is a chain bookstore and technology store, which is, all in all, very nice. The more bookshops the better!

You can also see some more stores in Larnaca - a boutique with designer and haute couture fashion, from where I cannot afford to shop, and a lovely knickers shop (I forget the name).

Shopping goes back a long way in women's history. Women have been shopkeepers since time immemorial. In the 19th century, which is my area of expertise, shops and department stores were one of the few public spaces available to respectable women. Also, a small shop could be respectable occupation for an impoverished gentlewoman, as Miss Mattie finds out in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford! Miss Mattie loses all her money: her servant, who loves her very much, buys the house so that they don't lose it, but they all continue to stay there together. Friends pool money so that Miss Mattie can start her own tea selling business. Social cooperation can do miracles!

So, shop as much as you can afford to - big or small, shopping is always good! (Size does not matter). For women, it's simply part of a long tradition 😍
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