Born out of wedlock in a small Indiana town and forced into a brutal marriage, Susan Lenox runs away and begins a long struggle to survive alone. Factory work, tenement poverty, the theatre and prostitution in Cincinnati and New York all test her, in a frank account of what a woman without money or protection faced.
Published in 1917, six years after its author’s death, it is a massive, unflinching novel of American women, money and work. Download the free EPUB.