Henry Gower dies a respected man and leaves his wife and daughter with nothing, his genial selfishness exposed only after his death. Mildred Gower, raised for a comfortable marriage and nothing else, makes one bad bargain to survive and then sets out for New York to train her voice, discovering what work, money and independence really cost a woman.
A frank novel of women’s economic dependence from the muckraking author of Susan Lenox, published in 1912. Download the free EPUB.