The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia is a 1903 novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. Reverend Joseph Gordon, a preacher in New York City, clashes with church elders because of his socialist views.

[2][3] Despite being a socialist, his best friend, Mark Overman, is a millionaire Wall Street banker.

[2] After he starts a relationship with Kate Ransom, a wealthy female parishioner, he divorces his wife.

[2] Ransom tells the police about the murder and Gordon is sentenced to the death penalty.

[2] Meanwhile, his faithful ex-wife asks her childhood lover, now the Governor of New York, to grant him a pardon, which he does.

[2] It has been interpreted as an attack on socialist clergyman George D. Herron, who had recently divorced.