A Perfect Lady: A Novelization of the Channing Pollock-Rennold Wolf Play (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Joseph Boardman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483755915 ISBN 13: 9780483755918

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

An alluring tale of rumor, power, and a woman choosing her own path.

A Perfect Lady follows Lucille Le Jambon, a daring performer who arrives in a small Kansas town with a life on the road behind her and a new life ahead. As a dance controversy and social pressures swirl around her cabaret and the church, she learns who she can trust and what she’s willing to risk for independence and love.

Set against a landscape of quiet towns and the tensions between respectability and desire, the story weaves together ambition, religion, and the fragile bonds of community. The town’s answer to change—whether a moving-picture house, a new social hall, or a fresh attitude toward entertainment—reveals how people define “good” in a world that asks hard questions about tradition, freedom, and responsibility. Across it all, one woman’s resolve to stay true to herself shapes the town’s future as surely as any vote or plan.

• A vivid cast and a tense social map: the minister, theater folk, and town neighbors collide over dancing, morals, and transformation.
• A central romance and a test of loyalty that asks what it means to be “respectable.”
• A portrait of small-town life with big questions about progress, happiness, and personal choice.
• Rich atmosphere, classic era detail, and a tale that balances hope with real-world consequences.

Ideal for readers who enjoy historical fiction with moral drama, character-driven emotion, and a look at how a community negotiates change.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0483755915
• ISBN 13: 9780483755918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 374