Creator
Zoe Anderson Norris.
Title
“The Picture of Her,” The Smart Set,
Date
December 1901.
Subject
Cover art by Andrew Kay Womrath.
Description
The heroine, a widowed writer, returns to Manhattan after two years in Europe (just like Zoe in 1901). She visits a wealthy friend, whose unfaithful husband (like Zoe’s Spencer) subjects her to “the humiliation of the second-hand kiss.” The narrator prefers singledom despite breadwinning challenges: “a widow knows where her husband is of nights.” Zoe contributed half a dozen stories to The Smart Set (1900-1930), “a magazine of cleverness,” alongside eminences like mystery writer Carolyn Wells and Spanish duchess Infanta Eulalia.
Source
From the Collection of Eve M. Kahn.