Just a Woman

Year of Publication
1916
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
321 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Richard Parker
Publisher
Macauley Company
City
New York
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Abstract
A novelization of the stage play, Just a Woman (1916), in which Anna Stanley, a Pittsburgh housewife, helps her husband Jim—a recovering alcoholic and laborer—rise to director of a steel company. As Jim supports worker’s rights, company officials try to ruin him with alcohol, which precipitates an affair. Jim’s mistress convinces him to sue Anna for divorce on the false charge of infidelity, but Jim eventually confesses his plot to the court and is sentenced to prison. Jim returns seeking Anna’s forgiveness—admitting she's “more than just a woman”—just as their son departs to fight in World War I.
Notes
Based on the play by Eugene Walter (1874-1941).
Author Biography
Richard Parker novelized popular American plays.
Time
1910s
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