Three Girls in a Flat

Chicago: Knight, Leonard & Co, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bound in blue and white cloth with gilt stamped titles, 8vo, 154,[2] pages, profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs; boards dust soiled with faint foxing and light tide marks at bottom corners, small pink stain at bottom front corner, spine heavily toned, hinges professionally reinforced, internally clean and sound. Semi-autobiographical novel about three women sharing a flat in Chicago during the time leading up to the Chicago World's Fair. The story is based around the real life work of Enid Yandell, a sculptor who studied with Auguste Rodin, and who contributed several notable works to the Columbian Exposition. She is "Duke" in the novel, which tells of her work as a sculptor on the Fairgrounds and the life of young women in Chicago as the White City was being built.