A Splash of Local Color

Bessie Lee, a writer, is rooming in a cheap New York lodging house, an uncle in the country forwarding her an allowance each month. One morning with a rejected manuscript Bessie receives a s... Read allBessie Lee, a writer, is rooming in a cheap New York lodging house, an uncle in the country forwarding her an allowance each month. One morning with a rejected manuscript Bessie receives a sarcastic note from Thomas Harvey, editor of "Modern Life," a monthly magazine, informing h... Read allBessie Lee, a writer, is rooming in a cheap New York lodging house, an uncle in the country forwarding her an allowance each month. One morning with a rejected manuscript Bessie receives a sarcastic note from Thomas Harvey, editor of "Modern Life," a monthly magazine, informing her that she will never sell a story until she has had actual experience. Her uncle dies, l... Read all