The complete online text of Ragged Lady, the — Complete by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

WILL other fund managers follow the lead of the "Black Lady" and start dumping UK equities in anticipation of a sharp stock market correction? The question has been engaging the best brains in the Square Mile ever since Tuesday, when the top fund manager...

Byline: VICKI L. FRIEDMAN, STAFF WRITER NORFOLK -- If Holy Cross was to have a prayer of beating sixth-ranked Old Dominion, a few things had to go right Saturday night for the Crusaders at the ODU field house. They had to counter...