v, [3], 437, [3] pp. Black patterned cloth, gilt titles, photographic frontispiece, photographic plates and facsimiles of pertinent documents in text. Britton describes her affair with President Warren G. Harding and the treatment she and their daughter received from the administration subsequently. Unable to find a publisher for the work, she formed her own organization, Elizabeth Ann Guild Inc., to advocate for the rights of children born out of wedlock. At the time of its publication, it was the only American work of the sort, and even before it became available to the public it caused a sensation: prior to its release, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (the same organization once headed by Anthony Comstock) arranged for the New York City Police to seize both the unbound printed sheets and the zinc printing plates; all materials were returned to the Elizabeth Ann Guild after the case was dismissed in court. Though Britton was unable to provide evidence of the relationship during her lifetime, in 2015 DNA tests proved Harding was the father of her daughter.
