Title: Every past thing
First published: 2007
Description: In 1899, the streets of New York were as unsettled as the heart and mind of Mary Jane Elmer. The ideas of the transcendentalists were still in the air, and thoughts of a second revolution were rising. Emma Goldman spoke to ever-growing numbers of the disenfranchised in Union Square and scandalized the city fathers. Police used horses, clubs and bullets to disperse the crowds. Women were redefining their roles for the coming century. And, near the middle of life, solitary in her marriage to an intractable and distant artist, and still grieving the death of their daughter ten years earlier, Mary struggles to shape a future she can endure.
Subjects: Middle age, Wives, Historical Fiction, Fiction, History, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, historical, Married people, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 1898-1951
LC classification: PS3620.H685 E94 2007