Rupert Hughes was a prolific American author, playwright, and later filmmaker who wrote popular fiction exploring the social anxieties and romantic entanglements of the American upper class in the early twentieth century. What Will People Say? reflects the era’s preoccupation with reputation and respectability among the well-to-do.
Now a public-domain work, the novel offers a snapshot of Edwardian-era American social fiction and the conventions that shaped popular storytelling of the period. Download the free EPUB at Better Gutenberg for a glimpse into a vanished world of drawing rooms and social intrigue.