A WICKED WOMAN by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Written in 1911, this short story by Jack London provides a window to another time. Feminists decry this story as "male centric" - which it is- and so were the times. But at least men were chivalrous then, something rarely seen today. An innocent young lady named Loretta tells a new suitor that she has made a huge mistake with a former boyfriend who has since told her that because of her wild act she now has to marry him..
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to |
| 0:47.0 | The Oh, Welcome back everyone to to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:52.0 | This is your host John Haggadorn, |
| 0:54.2 | and today a Jack London story called A Wicked Woman. |
| 0:59.8 | And now our story. |
| 1:05.1 | It was because she had broken with Billy that Loretta had come visiting to Santa Clara. Billy could not understand. His sister had reported |
| 1:10.4 | that he had walked the floor and cried all night. |
| 1:13.0 | Loretta had not slept all night either, while she had wept most of the night. |
| 1:17.0 | Daisy knew this because it was in her arms that the weeping had been done. |
| 1:21.0 | And Daisy's husband, husband Captain Kit knew too. The tears of Loretta and |
| 1:26.0 | the comforting by Daisy had lost him some sleep. Now Captain Kit did not like to |
| 1:31.8 | lose sleep. |
| 1:33.0 | Neither did he want Loretta to Mary Billy, nor anybody else. |
| 1:37.0 | It was Captain Kit's belief that Daisy needed the help of her younger sister in the household. |
| 1:42.0 | But he did not say this aloud. Instead, he always |
| 1:45.9 | insisted that Loretta was too young to think of marriage. So it was Captain Kit's |
| 1:50.3 | idea that Loretta should be packed off on a visit to Mrs. Hemingway. |
| 1:54.2 | There wouldn't be any Billy there. |
| 1:57.4 | Before Loretta had been at Santa Clara a week, she was convinced that Captain Kit's |
| 2:01.1 | idea was a good one. |
| 2:03.0 | In the first place, though Billy wouldn't believe it, she did not want to marry Billy. |
| 2:07.8 | And in the second place, though Captain Kit wouldn't believe it, she did not want to leave |
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