An Ambitious Woman

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by George Inness, Edvard Munch and Albert Bierstadt. A carpenter's daughter with beauty and no patience marries upward twice and finds each rung colder than the last. Fawcett wrote New York society novels and was one of the few American writers of the 1880s to say plainly that it was a caste system. This edition binds 59 plates of painting from 1841 to 1894, among them works by Munch, Homer, and Ranney.