title: The Accidental Warden: My unexpected year as Warden of the California Women's Prison
author:  Brook Carey 
description: In addition to her year as a California prison warden, Brook Carey was vice president for the Century 21 Real Estate corporate office. She holds a master?s of science degree from Pepperdine University and has taught marketing and management at several colleges and universities. Brook Carey lives and works with her husband, Bill, in San Antonio, Texas.
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  # What Diantha Did
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. HANDICAPPED
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  One may use the Old Man of the Sea,
  
  
  For a partner or patron,
  
  
  But helpless and hapless is he
  
  
  Who is ridden, inextricably,
  
  
  By a fond old mer-matron.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Warden house was more impressive in appearance than its neighbors.
  
  
  It had "grounds," instead of a yard or garden; it had wide pillared
  
  
  porches and "galleries," showing southern antecedents; moreover, it had
  
  
  a cupola, giving date to the building, and proof of the continuing
  
  
  ambitions of the builders.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The stately mansion was covered with heavy flowering vines, also with
  
  
  heavy mortgages. Mrs. Roscoe Warden and her four daughters reposed
  
  
  peacefully under the vines, while Roscoe Warden, Jr., struggled
  
  
  desperately under the mortgages.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A slender, languid lady was Mrs. Warden, wearing her thin but still
  
  
  brown hair in "water-w