Writings of Farm Women, 1840-1940

An Anthology
Herausgeber: Fairbanks, Carol; Haakenson, Bergine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1990. The stories of the homesteaders, ranchers, and farm women included in this anthology describe both the ordinary and the extraordinary. The writers discuss many different aspects of rural life such as farming techniques, religious beliefs, and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9781138055612
• ISBN-10: 1138055611
• Artikelnr.: 69948399

Autorenporträt

Carol Fairbanks, Bergine Haakenson

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. "Planting a Garden"
Buffalobird-woman 2. Life on Long Prairie Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve
3. "God Was Good to His Immigrants" Melissa Genett Moore 4. "Well, We
Stuck" Jennie Stoughton Osborn 5. Her Father's Right-Hand Man Adele Orpen
6. "I Want to Write about My Days of Slower Progress" Alice Dahlin Lund 7.
Sentenced to the Prairie Mary Larrabee 8. "A Farm Is Such a Hard Place for
a Woman" Laura Ingalls Wilder 9. Building Leslieville, Alberta Mary C.
Bailey 10. Farming in Iowa Ada Mae Brown Brinton 11. "I Have Planted
Flowers Everywhere" Elinore Pruitt Stewart 12. Two Young Women Homesteaders
Edith Eudora Kohl 13. "Wild with Heat and Thirst" Anna Langhorne Waltz 14.
"There Was Something Clean and Sweet about the Harvest" Era Bell Thompson
15. "I Intend to Stick" Hilda Rose 16. "Growing Things from the Soil Is
Bliss" Annie Pike Greenwood 17. "Starved, Stalled, and Stranded" Meridel
LeSeuer 18. A "Textbook Farmer" Grace Fairchild 19. Epilogue: Framing in
the 1980s Lynn Spielman Dummer; Index