The life of a remarkable Adirondack J woman (model, journalist, and poet) provides readers with a unique insider's view--drawn from diaries and primary material published here for the first time--into art and literature during the birth of the Age of Modernism. Jeanne Foster challenged the accepted role for women at the turn of the twentieth century. Born
on a hardscrabble farm in the Adirondack Mountains in 1879, she was hailed as an...