Project Gutenberg 2025-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 184 Dixon, Thomas, Jr. 1864 1946 Dixon, Thomas F. Dixon, Thomas Mulford, Stockton 1886 1960 The way of a man : $b a story of the new woman $aNew York :$bGrosset & Dunlap, $c1919. Emmanuel Ackerman, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "The way of a man: a story of the new woman" by Thomas Dixon Jr. is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Ellen West, a brilliant New York feminist editor whose attacks on marriage and advocacy of female independence collide with the allure of love and power as she attracts the author Randolph Field, the millionaire Edwin Brown, and the young journalist Ralph Manning. The book probes the clash between the New Woman’s ideals—sexual, economic, and spiritual autonomy—and the old order’s claims of romance, marriage, and possession. The opening of the novel finds Ellen hosting a triumphant Fifth Avenue reception after her election as a reform club’s president, where her manifesto against marriage and for “sex freedom” sets the tone. Field, her realist neighbor, confesses love on the roof and is coolly refused. Brown arrives uninvited; in a candid rooftop interview he first offers a lavish “free alliance,” then marriage, and is rejected on both counts. Ellen is then unexpectedly smitten with Manning, her friend’s Southern nephew, whose earnest ambition and freshness disarm her skepticism. As they meet nightly, she falls hard, while he wins a newspaper post and returns with a ring fashioned from his mother’s earrings, proposing ardently on the starlit roof. She reciprocates his love but refuses marriage on principle, arguing for a free, self-directed union, and their debate over love, freedom, and the “home” swells into a tense impasse as the opening section ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433074810825 20210520045311dixon 1919 us Reading ease score: 85.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Feminism -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction Sexual freedom -- Fiction Women editors -- Fiction PS Text Category: Romance Category: Novels Category: American Literature 410994 2025-07-30T08:00:35.854451 text/html 385577 2025-06-27T12:01:59 text/html 671940 2025-07-30T08:00:44.391405 application/epub+zip 668722 2025-07-30T08:00:37.461381 application/epub+zip 310381 2025-07-30T08:00:36.704434 application/epub+zip 766190 2025-07-30T08:00:49.109363 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 733718 2025-07-30T08:00:43.661342 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 358573 2025-07-30T08:00:34.077440 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 338637 2025-06-27T12:01:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15436 2025-07-30T08:00:49.263329 application/rdf+xml 14840 2025-07-30T08:00:36.914378 image/jpeg 2935 2025-07-30T08:00:36.811399 image/jpeg 666114 2025-07-30T08:00:35.905448 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia