Mary Ann Mann Cornelius

Broschiertes Buch

Little Wolf, a Tale of the Western Frontier

Beschreibung

Mary Ann Cornelius' Little Wolf is an adventurous story about the western frontier. We meet the "Generous, warm-hearted, and strikingly handsome, Edward Sherman who "appeared a perfect type of manhood." in New England and follow him to the Upper Mississippi region. When Edward meets Little Wolf all excitement breaks loose! "Her beautiful, bewitching face had been half hidden by curls, and covered with blushes, from the moment her faintness had passed off, and, but for the twinkle of those mischief-loving brown eyes, and certain unmistakable movements of her slight figure, she might have passed for meekness itself. To those, therefore, who were unacquainted with her peculiarly nervous and impulsive temperament, the change in her appearance was rather surprising. With one sweep of her plump little hand, she tossed back the ringlets from her brow, and frowningly declared she wished she had killed them."

Autor

Mary Ann Mann Cornelius was an American writer and social reformer. She was a temperance campaigner and the president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) of Arkansas. She spent several years in Tacoma, Washington, where she founded a free reading room and circulating library for the youth. Cornelius was the director of the humane society in both Tacoma and Topeka, Kansas. She wrote several novels and supernatural stories, including Little Wolf, Uncle Nathan's Farm, The White Flame, and Why? or A Kansas Girl's Query. She backed women's suffrage. Despite being semi-invalid for many years, she was active in Christian and philanthropic causes. Cornelius' earliest public efforts were to support her husband's work as a pastor. Many desperate women in the church confided in her about their problems with drinking husbands and sons, and Cornelius became involved in the temperance movement, joining the W.C.T.U. In 1885, she was chosen president of the state's W.C.T.U. She organized the first petition drive to close saloons in Little Rock, Arkansas, under the three-mile ordinance. The canvass was acrimonious, with threats to kill Cornelius if she continued to work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9781612032184
• ISBN-10: 1612032184
• Artikelnr.: 33665882