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What does a woman give up to become herself when family, marriage, and money all press their claims?
In One Woman's Life, Robert Herrick follows a woman from girlhood to maturity as she seeks more than the roles her society offers. Family and duty shape her choices. Marriage brings questions of obligation, while money and status bear on her search for a footing of her own.
Herrick gives this struggle room to unfold in a close, unhurried portrait. His American realism keeps the woman connected to the world around her: class, ambition, and a society shaped by growing business. The stakes are personal: how to grow into herself when the claims of others leave so little room.
What you’ll discover
- A life in full Follow the gradual passage from girlhood to maturity, with space to consider each stage.
- Marriage under scrutiny Explore what marriage asks of a woman whose wishes reach beyond her assigned role.
- The pressure of money See how wealth and status reach into private life and weigh on personal choices.
- A world that shapes her Look closely at the ties between one woman's ambitions and the society surrounding her.
- The cost of selfhood Consider the sacrifices behind personal growth, without expecting a neat or easy path.
Who will love it
For readers who love realist fiction, American social history, and thoughtful portraits of a single life, with family, marriage, money and ambition shaping a woman's search for selfhood.
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- A life shaped by its surroundings
- Love and marriage carry a price
- Money and ambition press on the heart
- Selfhood is earned through sacrifice
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La vida de una mujer
by Robert Herrick · 1913
A woman seeks her own place in a changing America as family, marriage and money press on her choices.
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One Woman's Life is a novel by the American writer Robert Herrick, who wrote it in the early twentieth century. Herrick taught English at the University of Chicago, and he wrote about the people around him: ordinary Americans caught up in money, marriage and ambition.
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A life shaped by its surroundings
Herrick belongs to the school of American realism. He believed a person could not be understood apart from the country, the class and the moment that formed her. In this novel, the heroine grows up in a society that expects certain things of a young woman. She is meant to be agreeable, to marry well, and to find her purpose in other people.
The book treats these expectations as real forces rather than background scenery. Family opinion, the habits of a town or city, and the lure of comfort all push in one direction. The reader watches how a young woman first learns what is expected of her, and how she begins to sense that those expectations may not fit her.
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What is One Woman's Life about?
It is a realist novel that follows a woman through the stages of her life. It looks at how family, marriage, money and social expectation shape her choices as she searches for independence and a sense of who she is.
Who wrote One Woman's Life?
Robert Herrick, an American novelist and professor of English at the University of Chicago, wrote it. He died in 1938. He is not the same person as the English poet of the seventeenth century with the same name.
Is One Woman's Life a true story?
No, it is a work of fiction. Herrick wrote it in the realist manner, drawing on the social life of early twentieth century America, so it feels true to its period even though the heroine is invented.
The author
Robert Herrick
1868–1938 · American novelist
Robert Herrick was an American novelist and longtime University of Chicago professor — not to be confused with the seventeenth-century English poet — whose realist fiction examined ambition, marriage, and money in turn-of-the-century American life.
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