A popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid women writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Her stories appeared in the Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and she wrote 93 novels, many of which were best sellers. She used her fiction to promote values including the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood, and the importance of service to others.

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CONTENTS

Martie The Unconquered (1917)

The Treasure (1914)

Sisters (1919)

Undertow (1917)

Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories (1913)

POOR, DEAR MARGARET KIRBY

BRIDGING THE YEARS

THE TIDE-MARSH

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALANNA

THE FRIENDSHIP OF ALANNA

"S IS FOR SHIFTLESS SUSANNA"

THE LAST CAROLAN

MAKING ALLOWANCES FOR MAMMA

THE MEASURE OF MARGARET COPPERED

MISS MIX, KIDNAPPER

SHANDON WATERS

GAYLEY THE TROUBADOUR

DR. BATES AND MISS SALLY

THE GAY DECEIVER

THE RAINBOW'S END

ROSEMARY'S STEPMOTHER

AUSTIN'S GIRL

RISING WATER

The Heart of Rachael (1916)

Harriet and the Piper (1920)

The Rich Mrs Burgoyne (1912)

Mother (1911)

The Beloved Woman (1921)

The Story of Julia Page (1915)

Saturday's Child (1914)

Martie The Unconquered (1917)

Martie's problems are those of thousands of women--"She wanted to live."

The novel tells how Martie revolted from subjection under her father and married a third rate actor. After varying fortunes her husband dies and she takes her little son home. Here again she finds herself in conflict with her narrow minded father and, after rejecting the sincere love of a man because he was divorced and she a Catholic, she goes to New York and finds a peaceful joy in earning her living.

The Treasure (1914)

A fairly readable but slight story which deals with the servat problem in the everyday American family with a single maid, and points a way out. The "treasure" is a graduate of a unique college for training servants, under whose capable hand the household moves like clockwork; but not without amusing scenes as the family try to adjust themselves to the new order of things.

Undertow (1917)

A sensitive novel of a wife driven to despair by the pressures of suburbia.

The Heart of Rachael (1916)

Rachael is called upon to solve many problems, and is working out these, there is shown the beauty and strength of soul of one of fiction's most appealing characters.

Harriet and the Piper (1920)

The mature expression of a novelist whose books have brown in depth and intensity, not to say popularity, during the past few years.Harriet is the secretary of a very spoiled and beautiful wife. Her love affairs are difficult, the first unhappy through disillusionment, the later and real love threatened by her scruples against divorce and later by her fear that her husband will never love her. A great deal of atmosphere, much money and grandeur, talk of position and so forth.

The Rich Mrs Burgoyne (1912)

The story of a sensible woman who keeps within her means, refuses to be swamped by social engagements, lives a normal human life of varied interests, and has her own romance.

Mother (1911)

This book has a fairy-story touch, counterbalanced by the sturdy reality of struggle, sacrifice, and resulting peace and power of a mother's experiences.

The Beloved Woman (1921)

The story of Norma Sheridan who "came into her own" in a manner befitting the greatness and dignity of the family to which she rightly belonged.

The Story of Julia Page (1915)

How Julia Page, reared in rather unpromising surroundings, lifted herself through sheer determination to a higher plane of life. Incidentally shows the "double standard" as it is.

Saturday's Child (1914)

Out on the Pacific coast a normal girl, obscure and lovely, makes a quest for happiness. She passes through three stages--poverty, wealth and service--and works out a creditable salvation.