Edna Ferber: The Woman Who Tried To Be Good: Before she tried to be a good woman she had been a very bad woman

Edna Ferber

gen 2024 · Philip Chenevert · Letto da philip chenevert

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"Before she tried to be a good woman she had been a very bad woman—so bad that she could trail her wonderful apparel up and down Main Street, from the Elm Tree Bakery to the railroad tracks, without once having a man doff his hat to her or a woman bow. You passed her on the street with a surreptitious glance, though she was well worth looking at—in her furs and laces and plumes. She had the only full-length mink coat in our town, and Ganz's shoe store sent to Chicago for her shoes. Hers were the miraculously small feet you frequently see in stout women.

For she owned the House with the Closed Shutters, near the freight depot—did Blanche Devine".