Fallen among reformers : Miles Franklin, modernity and the new woman / Janet Lee.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index.

Intro -- Half title -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Such Destiny -- The Cosmopolitan Bushwoman1212 Kerryn Higgs, "The Cosmopolitan Bushwoman", Review of Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin by Jill Roe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), Women's Review of Books 27, no. 4 (July / August 2010): 10-12. -- The Book -- Part I: Work in the Windy City -- Part II: The Promise and Peril of Marriage -- Part III: Male Vice and the New Man -- Her Delicate Wings -- Part I: Work -- A Picture of Contemporary Existence

"Lungs and Legs of Strong Men" -- Spoils to the Victor! -- The Immorality of Philanthropy -- A Higher Purpose -- Like a Thunderstorm -- "The Misery" -- Comrades All -- Protest and Solidarity -- Part II: Marriage -- That Vexatious Failure -- Making Their Living Out of Their Loving -- A Sane, Sensible Woman -- Her Boldest Throw -- A Saucy Little Sausage -- Bobby This, and Bobby That -- The Banquet of Love -- To Be Let Alone -- The Chicago Spinsters -- The Spinster Narratives -- Beauty, Intelligence, and Generosity -- Cupid's Interest -- A Wider Outlook -- Part III: Men -- Moral Squalor

The Affinity Business -- Little Brown Bird and the Fallen Woman -- No More Originality than a Turnip -- Virtue -- Maisie's Peril -- The Point on Which You Are So Old-Fashioned -- A Hopeful Narrative -- Courage and Confession -- A Tale of Two Suitors -- Darling Sissy Boy -- Cold-Blooded Monster -- Subverting White Slavery -- Conclusion -- A Rush and a Swing -- A Net of Circumstance -- Difference of View, Difference of Standard -- Works Cited -- Index

'Fallen Among Reformers' focuses on Stella MilesFranklin's New Woman protest literature written during her time in Chicago withthe National Women's Trade Union League (1906-1915).

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