Twenty Tales by Twenty Women

Twenty Tales by Twenty Women is a book first published in 1903. It contains twenty essays from women that tells of their lives in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century. A fascinating glimpse into the lives of women who were judged and ostracised from society having fallen on hard times. Stories The Diary of a Chicago Girl; The Life Story of a Southern Widow; A Story of the Chicago Ghetto; A Woman of Thirty-Eight; A Forecast; A Daughter of Proud Kentucky; My Lover's Bequest; The Victim of a Drug; What Happened to a Girl Who Flirted; Sold at a Fixed Price; A Story of Suicide Bridge; Two Babes and Two Mothers; Not Guilty; My Lover’s Daughter; As Told to a Clergyman; A Story of Stage Life; A Trip Across the Lake; One Woman’s Way; A Story of the Levee; and A Scientific Phenomenon.