Jennie Gerhardt

Description:

Dreiser's second novel and his own personal favorite features an impoverished heroine who, in simply trying to make her way in the world, inadvertently defies a host of social conventions.

subjects: Fiction,  Unmarried mothers,  Unmarried mothers in fiction,  Women domestics in fiction,  Women domestics,  Women household employees in fiction,  Women household employees,  Love stories,  Indiana,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  Fiction, romance, general,  New York Times reviewed