Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. Hardcover first edition - Despite the title, this was a novel published anonymously by Vorse, a noted suffragist, pacifist, popular novelist, labor journalist, single mother and much more. As a reporter she covered all major strikes from from the 1926 textile strike in Passaic NJ, and in 1929 in Gastonia NC, and the Harlan County KY coal war in 1931 and more. The narrator of this novel is "an aging, feisty, cultivated widow and mother of four adult children [who] defines the secret of growing old wisely as laying aside meaningless social convention and, instead, acting spontaneously. . . Spry and defiant, she rebels against the constant interference of her overprotective children who fret about her health, stuff her with pills and tell her how to behave." 270 pp plus 8 pp publisher's ads.