Sowing the Wind (play)

[1] Mr. Brabazon, a wealthy widower, past middle age, had in his younger days formed an alliance which had been brought to an end by the apparently friend efforts of an old crony, Mr. Watkins, who had told him that the woman with whom he had become entangled was disloyal.

Deeply interested in the fortunes of Annesley, he had hoped the young man would marry a Miss Maud Fretwell.

Brabazon, by means of Watkins, makes inquiries as to Rosamond's antecedents, and though she is a victim of scandals which are afterward proven unfounded, it is made plain that her birth is illegitimate.

No writer of plays concerned with sociological problems, particularly those relating to the observance of the sexual law, has ever paid pure and virtuous womanhood a more delicate and graceful compliment than that which Sidney Grundy has embodies in 'Sowing the Wind'.

He brings into relief an apotheosis of a woman born out of wedlock and reared in immoral surroundings, yet possessing the pure and wholesome qualities of mind and character which preserve her from the contagious surroundings of her youth, and in womanhood force her to declare herself against the unjust social prejudices which operate to prevent her entering into the high circles reserved for women not morally better, but more fortunate.