New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover - A novel originally published in 1873 which centers on a young "fallen" woman named Mercy, who is working as a nurse during the Franco-Prussian war, and when it appears that a yound woman whom she has taken in was killed, sh sees a chance to claim a new identity but things soon unravel for her. While this could be considered pure escapism and sensationalism, Wilkie Collins was ahead of his time in his attitude towards women and so the fallen woman, the "Magdalen" is definitely the more sympathetic character. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and three inserted plates by John Sloan. 366 pp.