Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories she published in American Magazine between 1911 and 1913.
Buck Jr., the wet-behind-the-ears son of the founder of Featherloom..
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Yet she never shies away from a challenge, and her sharp instincts and common sense serve her well in dealing with the likes of Ed Meyer, a smooth-talking, piano-playing salesman
Blanche Le Hay, prima donna of the Sam Levin Crackerjack Belles; and T.
Her experience has taught her that it\'s best to stick to Roast beef, medium--avoiding both physical and moral indigestion--rather than experiment with fancy sauces and exotic dishes.
Like her compact bag of traveling necessities, Emma has her life boiled down to essentials: her work and her seventeen-year-old son, Jock.
With one hand on her sample case and the other fending off advances from salesmen, hotel clerks, and other predators, Emma holds on tightly to her reputation: honest, hardworking, and able to outsell the slickest salesman.
Buck\'s Featherloom skirts and petticoats.
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The stories featured Emma Mc Chesney: smart, savvy, stylish, divorced mother, and Midwest traveling sales representative for T.
Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories she published in American Magazine between 1911 and 1913
