Sisters of Fortune: Being the True Story of How Three Motherless Sisters Saved Their Home in New England and Raised Their Younger Brother While Thei: ... Fortune Hunting in the California Gold Rush - Softcover

Heffernan, Nancy Coffey; Stecker, Ann Page

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087451651X ISBN 13: 9780874516517

Verlag: University Press of New England, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

In 1850 , James Wilson, a widowed congressman from Keene, New Hampshire, left his three daughters and young son to seek his fortune in the California gold rush. During his twelve year absence, the daughters wrote their father almost 350 letters filled with accounts of daily life and lively observations on local and national events. The daughters -- Mary Elizabeth, 24, Annie, 18, and Charlotte, 16, when their father left -- were conventional, upper-middle-class young women struggling to keep up appearances in a society that accorded them few rights. These letters and the story they tell constitute a valuable social and cultural document and offer readers a vivid description of mid-19th century American life.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press of New England
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 087451651X
• ISBN 13: 9780874516517
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 289
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar