Other Fiction Miller, Alice Duer: Manslaughter. v1. 26 Dec 2021

[GrannyGrump]

Early 20th Century social satire in the Edith Wharton vein.

[Our heroine Lydia Thorne,] “who has always taken unfair advantage of her wealth, beauty, and social position, is convicted in a hit-and-run case like any other common criminal. … Miller does not skirt around the ugly, and the result is surprisingly successful. Manslaughter is a complex novel inhabited by characters capable of depth.”
(— encyclopedia.com)

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Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses impacted on the women’s suffrage issue, while her verse-play The White Cliffs encouraged U.S. entry into World War II. She also wrote novels and screenplays. Her first book, The Modern Obstacle, was published 1903, but she scored her first major success with Come Out of the Kitchen in 1916. That story was made into a play and later the 1948 film Spring in Park Lane.
(—from Wikipedia)

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Manslaughter, by Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942), was first published in 1921. Illustrations by F. R. Gruger (1871–1953) were omitted due to copyright restrictions. This ebook is in the public domain where copyright is “Life+75” or less, and in the USA.
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