Susan Lenox (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Graham Phillips
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1879-1903
- Setting: Southeastern Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; New York City; London; and Paris
- Principal Characters: Susan Lenox, Fanny Warham, George Warham, Ruth Warham, Sam Wright, Jeb Ferguson, Robert Burlingham, Roderick Spenser, Freddie Palmer, George Brent
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Gender roles, Marriage, Prostitution or prostitutes, Poverty or poor people, Illegitimacy
- Locales: New York, NY, Paris, France, Cincinnati, OH, London, England, Indiana, Louisville, KY
The Novel
Originally published in two volumes, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise is the story of a young woman who struggles against hypocritical double standards, lapses into prostitution, and eventually finds her way back into respectable society. The story begins in Sutherland, a fictitious southeastern Indiana town along the Ohio River modeled after Phillips’s hometown, Madison, Indiana. Susan Lenox’s unmarried mother dies during childbirth without divulging her lover’s identity. The lifeless baby does not respond to conventional methods of resuscitation, so the...
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