A Modern Chronicle is a 1910 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill.
Overview
A Modern Chronicle is a 1910 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill.
The novel explores "the problem of the modern woman" and the effects of divorce, in a world driven by industrialization and business competition. Honora Leffingwell divorces her successful stockbroker husband to climb the social ladder, remarrying a man with ancestral wealth and status who turns out not to be all he seems.
Reception
Churchill completed the manuscript of the novel in December 1909. Released in March 1910, it was the second best-selling novel in the United States in 1910, and was the best-selling book in the country in the June and July 1910 issues of The Bookman.
