Woman of Property Author:Mabel Seeley Story of a self-made woman, whose ruthless disregard of the people who stood in her way brought her success, which -- at the end -- turns to ashes in her mouth. Frieda had all the counts against her in the last decade of the century when to be a foreigner, and poor, were unforgivable sins. Accident opened her eyes to the fact that she had assets... more » which she was ignoring; that she could "manipulate" the things that came her way. And so -- ignorant, hard, with nothing of imagination or kindliness in her -- for either family or friends -- she reached for her particular star, and when that escaped her clutches, she took what she was as next best. Her marriage was a farce; motherhood was a nuisance; the job she created for herself was her life -- and to it she fed all else. Her men were tools -- often worthless ones -- her arrogant conceit, her overweening ambition, her lust for gold combined to make her a cheat, a liar, an ingrate. And -- at the end -- when success was in her hand -- she lost -- and faced emptiness....
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