A Modern Chronicle — Volume 02

Languageen
First published2004-10-19
RightsPublic domain in the USA.
Gutenberg ID#5375

Description

"A Modern Chronicle — Volume 02" by Winston Churchill is a novel published in 1910. This bestselling work examines the challenges facing the modern woman in an era of industrialization and social ambition. Honora Leffingwell divorces her prosperous stockbroker husband to ascend the social ladder, remarrying into ancestral wealth and status. Yet her new husband harbors secrets that threaten her carefully constructed world. Churchill's narrative explores marriage, divorce, and female agency in early twentieth-century America. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Subjects

  • Marriage -- Fiction
  • United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
  • Women -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
  • PS

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