Download or read book Fashion and Famine written by Ann Sophia Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "big-city melodrama" which tells the story of Ada Wilcox Leicester, an innocent country girl who allows herself to be seduced and corrupted by her aspirations for material wealth. Ada later redeems herself by transforming her grand house into a home for destitute gentlewomen.