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social novel: also known as the social problem (or social protest) novel, is a "work of fiction in which a prevailing social problem, such as gender, race, or class prejudice, is dramatized through its effect on the characters of a novel".More specific examples of social problems that are addressed in such works, include poverty, conditions in factories and mines, the plight of child labor, violence against women, rising criminality, and epidemics because of over-crowding, and poor sanitation in cities.

Samuel Ullman Museum

This is the home in Birmingham, Alabama, where Samuel Ullman resided during his final two decades of life. “Granpa” Ullman lived here with his eldest daughter and her family, and he died in an upstairs bedroom. It was in the home’s dining room that, at approximately age seventy-eight, he wrote the poetic essay “Youth.” As you approach the home, you note the Craftsman-style elements of the house, such as the leaded-glass window above the front door and the rustic columns along the front porch.