# A Gentle and Refined Woman — How the Other Half Lives character guide

> A Gentle and Refined Woman in How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis.

**Role:** 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

## Who they are

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

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