Frontispiece and cover for The Winning Chance, by Elizabeth Dejeans.
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Elizabeth Dejeans' novel deals with sexual abuse by a predatory employer. Here a 19-year-old stenographer shrinks from her sinister boss's demand that she succumb to his advances. After enduring months of harassment and threats, she enters into a loveless relationship with him, thereby saving her blind mother and brother from financial ruin but losing her self-respect. After a moral awakening, he later commits suicide, and she marries the man she loves.
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