Patience Sparhawk grows up in a shabby California town, clever and defiant, and makes her way to New York society, journalism and an ill-judged marriage. Atherton, who dedicated the book to Paul Bourget, sets out to show individual will as the driving force of the American character, embodied in a heroine who refuses to bend.
A bold portrait of the self-willed New Woman of the 1890s, set against the society that tries to contain her. Download the free EPUB.