Without a Home

"Without a Home" by Edward Payson Roe is the story of a well-to-do family brought down from their stable and privileged life by poverty after the patriarch loses his job. When the father takes up with an opium dependency, the downward spiral of the family further quickens. The heroine, older daughter Mildred Jocelyn is determined to make her way back up to the top of New York City's 19th-century society.