Creator
Owen and Leita Kildare.
Title
Such a Woman.
Coverage
New York:
Publisher
G. W. Dillingham,
Date
1911
Description
The novel’s Irish-American heroine, while her abusive, alcoholic husband is in prison, finds ennobling work helping run a wealthy chaplain’s settlement house. (Spoiler alert: once widowed, she marries the chaplain.) Zoe’s friend Leita Kildare finished this book begun by her ex-husband Owen, who had died in an asylum. Known as “the Bowery Kipling,” he supposedly based writings on his impoverished Irish-American background, but he was actually a Russian immigrant. A photo of Leita’s Ragged Edge book party is over the fireplace.
Source
From the Collection of Eve M. Kahn.