Octavo, 7 7/8? tall, xx + 490 pages, gilt spine titles on lavender cloth. A very good, generally clean, original hardcover first edition thus with minor shelf wear; binding solid, paper cream white with foxing at the fore-edges. In a very good minus, moderately worn dust jacket, chipped and foxed at the fore-edge, and with the original price clipped.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (Lost American Fiction)

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Publication Date

1977

Language

English

ISBN 10

0809307731

ISBN 13

9780809307739

Binding

hardcover

Edition

First Edition thus.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good minus

Weight

33 ounces

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Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

This strong novel about the real life of women and turn-of-the-century social and economic conditions in the United States was the posthumous work of a highly successful muckraking journalist and “problem novelist.” As Elizabeth Janeway notes in her new Afterword to this edition, Susan Lenox,written when the first feminist wave in this country was beginning to make itself felt, gives us “a striking, indeed an unforgettable, view of the past [that] merges im�perceptibly with the present,” and does so, she adds, “with a clarity of vision and an objectivity about women’s real existence which is rare even now.”

It is a picaresque story of a heroine born a “love child” in a rural setting and raised in comfort and seeming affec�tion, graced with good looks, intelli�gence, and an innate nobility, who is thrown out on an uncaring society to sink or swim. Her fall before her rise is into prostitution. Her rise as a Broad�way star, by means of her will, pride and determination, and trust in herself, causes her to reject dependence on any man. Along with the documented op�pression of women, readers will find clear statements of feminist ideas rang�ing from the economic to the personal.

A permanently valuable study and a classic of social realism, Susan Lenox richly deserves a new reading today for its contribution to an understanding of the life of women in our society.

About the Author

David Graham Phillips (1867–1911) was murdered by a lunatic who thought that his family had been defamed in one of Phillips’ novels.

Elizabeth Janeway resides in New York City. Among her recent books is Man’s World, Woman’s Place.

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