Jennie Gerhardt

About this book

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

  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • american literature
  • fiction
  • fiction, romance, general
  • indiana
  • love stories
  • man-woman relationships, fiction
  • new york times reviewed
  • romance fiction
  • unmarried mothers
  • unmarried mothers in fiction
  • women domestics
  • women domestics in fiction
  • women household employees
  • women household employees in fiction