Covering her years as a pioneering American journalist in London and her trips to the United States in the early 20th century, this long-out-of-print autobiography of Elizabeth Banks (1870-1939) provides rare insight into the professional career of a dedicated and talented woman and into the major political issues of the time. Banks's memoir is full of personal and fascinating anecdotes about her neighbors George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, and Thomas Hardy, her friends H. G. Wells and suffragette Henrietta Marston, her meeting with Theodore Roosevelt, and daily life in London during World War I.