Ragged Lady — Complete

Ragged Lady – Complete is a story by William Dean Howells. Howells was a novelist, short story writer, magazine editor, and tutor who usually penned for different publications. Excerpt: «She as a woman, who in spite of her bulk and the jellylike majesty with which she shook in her smoothly casing brown silks, as she entered hotel dining-rooms, and the severity with which she frowned over her fan down the length of the hotel drawing-rooms, betrayed more than her husband the commonness of their origin. She could not help talking, and her accent and her diction gave her away for a middle-class New England person of village birth and unfashionable sojourn in Boston.»