poor women

A young Indian woman tells her life story, describing her abandonment by her mother, beatings from her father, marriage at the age of twelve to an abusive older man, and struggle to survive and raise three children alone after leaving her husband, and explains how her work as a maid for a retired anthropology professor led to her learning to read and write and becoming an author.

Stacey Edgar recounts how she created a socially conscious business that has helped women on five continents feed their families and send their children to school with only a few thousand dollars and a desire to help others.

Features the tale of a pretty young girl driven to brutal excesses by poverty and loneliness, and includes five additional short stories by Stephen Crane.

A collection of poems that tell the story of Ludie, a poor woman in a coal-mining town in West Virginia, from her childhood to her adolescent years, and then through her married life into her old age.