How the Other Half Lives · Character

A Gentle and Refined Woman

A Gentle and Refined Woman is a character in How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis.

supporting

Also known as a gentle and refined woman who left in direst poverty to earn her own living alone among strangers, herself

First appearance: 0024-xx-the-working-girls-of-new-york

A formerly well-off woman reduced to poverty, struggling alone in the tenements.