novels-with-a-purpose

Updated: June 28, 2025

People said to themselves, "This book seems to be a book with a teaching not thoroughly banal, like the novels-with-a-purpose after which we flock; so we'll give it a wide berth." And they shunned it accordingly. That was the end of Herminia Barton's literary aspirations. She had given the people of her best, and the people rejected it.

Grant Allen - The Woman Who Did