Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
Phillips, David Graham
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Add to basketSold by Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
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Add to basketFirst Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($12.95 price intact). Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1977. Octavo. Book is like new with very light toning to the page ends. Dust jacket is like new with very light toning to the edges. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
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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 imperceptibly 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 affection, graced with good looks, intelligence, 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 Broadway 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 oppression of women, readers will find clear statements of feminist ideas ranging 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.
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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