An essay is presented on American writer Elizabeth Madox Roberts and her novel entitled "The Time of Man." It offers a background of Roberts being a former schoolteacher when she wrote her first novel "The Time of Man" in 1926 and how the book received acclaim from writers such as Ford Madox Ford and Glenway Wescott. The author discusses the reason why the book is not that known to many and why she was no longer popular years after her success as a writer.