Phillips began as a journalist and his series of articles entitled The Treason of the Senate published in Cosmopolitan in 1906 is his most interesting journalistic work. His novels include The Great God Success (1901), The Cost (1904), The Deluge (1905), The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig (1909), and The Conflict (1911). Susan Lenox, Her Fall and Rise (1917) is his most famous novel. Written from a woman's point of view, it is a classic of early 20th Century social realism. Published posthumously, it is the story of Susan Lenox, a woman who through her force of will, determination and self-trust extricates herself from a life of forced prostitution to one of dignity. Phillips was murdered at age 44. |
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