Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Robert Seldon Duncanson, George Inness and Albert Bierstadt. Stories about the kingdoms people build for themselves: an office, a marriage, a convent, a newspaper. Jordan reported the Lizzie Borden trial as a young newspaperwoman, edited Harper's Bazar for years, and as a reader at Harper & Brothers accepted a manuscript by an unknown named Sinclair Lewis. Her working women were drawn from the ones she employed and was. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Everett Shinn and John Sloan show the New York squares and parks where Jordan's private worlds took shape.

Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1865-1947) was an American journalist and author. She worked as a reporter for the New York World and as editor of Harper's Bazaar. Her published works include the story collection Many Kingdoms.