It was made into a 1933 drama film of the same name directed by John Cromwell, adapted by Jane Murfin.

[1] The novel follows the heroine, Ann Vickers, from tomboy school girl in the late 19th century American Midwest, through college, and into her forties.

As a social worker in a settlement house during the First World War, she has her first sexual affair, becomes pregnant, and has an abortion.

Later, having become successful running a modern and progressive prison for women, she marries a dull man, more out of loneliness than love.

Flouting both middle-class convention and that of her progressive social circle in New York, she becomes pregnant by the judge, having a son.