Without a Home: A Novel of the New York Shop Girls
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Robert Seldon Duncanson, George Inness and Albert Bierstadt. A prosperous family loses everything, and the daughter goes out to work in a New York shop — where the hours, the standing and the manager between them test her harder than poverty did. Roe was a Presbyterian minister and a Union army chaplain who turned novelist after the Chicago fire and outsold every American of his decade; this 1881 novel is his attack on shop conditions and on the opium the doctors handed out for exhaustion. Fifty-three plates, among them Eastman Johnson and George Inness, follow the novel's course from home and warmth to the cold Atlantic and Greenland coasts.
Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Robert Seldon Duncanson, George Inness and Albert Bierstadt. A prosperous family loses everything, and the daughter goes out to work in a New York shop — where the hours, the standing and the manager between them test her harder than poverty di...
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Edward Payson Roe (1838–1888) was an American novelist and Presbyterian minister. After serving as a chaplain in the Civil War, he was pastor of a church in Highland Falls, New York, and later devoted himself to writing and horticulture in Cornwall-on-Hudson. His novels include Barriers Burned Away, Opening a Chestnut Burr, and He Fell in Love with His Wife.
Edward Payson Roe (1838–1888) was an American novelist and Presbyterian minister. After serving as a chaplain in the Civil War, he was pastor of a church in Highland Falls, New York, and later devoted himself to writing and horticulture in Cornwall-on-Hudson. His novels include Barriers Burned Aw...
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