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Elizabeth Dejeans
1873–1928
A popular early 20th-century American novelist, she wrote lively stories about modern women, ambition, and the social pressures of her day. Several of her books were successful enough to be adapted into silent films.
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Nobody's Child
by Elizabeth Dejeans
About the author
Writing under the pen name Elizabeth Dejeans, Frances Elizabeth Janes Budgett was an American novelist born in New Philadelphia, Ohio, on December 27, 1868. She published fiction in the early 1900s and became known for accessible, dramatic stories that centered on women and contemporary social life.
Her novels often explored independence, class, romance, and the complicated choices facing women in a changing society. Works associated with her include Nobody's Child and The Double House, and three silent films were based on her writing.
She died in Dover, Ohio, on February 6, 1928. Although she is less widely read today, her work offers a vivid glimpse of popular American fiction in the years just before and after World War I.