English Instructors who have earned a living today as best-selling authors who work from home to provide home-cooked meals for their families and themselves would have seen life differently back in the 1930s.

The Great Depression was the worst economic down spiral in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from the stock market crash of 1929 to 1939" (History.com Editors, 2009).

"The Great Depression started affecting the educational systems in the fall of 1932 when employment failures began to affect mortgage companies" (Encyclopedia.com, 2021).

For a woman to pay her bills and help feed her family and guests, she would need to keep her money safe. " Bank runs swept the United States again in the Spring and Fall of 1931 and the fall of 1932, and by early 1933 thousands of banks had closed their doors: however, on March 4, 1933. Texas had ordered all of the remaining banks to close" (History.com Editors, 2009).

For English teachers to keep a steady flow of income coming in, she would have needed to join the Works Progress Administration, "which President D. Roosevelt created with an executive order on May 6, 1935. It was part of the New Deal Plan to live the economy out of the Depression by reforming the financial system and restoring the economy to Pre-Depression levels" (History.com Editors, 2009). For women who love to cook new recipes, buying the ingredients to cook these recipes for her family would have been nearly impossible because during the "Great Depression, farmers could not afford to harvest their crops and were forced to leave them rotting in the fields while other people starved," (History.com Editors, 2009)

In conclusion, women would have been able to survive the Great Depression working as English Instructors financially. While relying on the (WAP) for financial support; however, unless they already own their home and can run a farm to feed their family, buying ingredients from stores would have been difficult to cook new meals for her family.