American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier (Ohio River Valley Series)

Bentley, Anna Briggs

ISBN 10: 0813122651 / ISBN 13: 9780813122656

Verlag: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 2003

Book is Poor condition. Good for reading, not pretty to look at! The pages and cover are soiled and/or yellowed, worn throughout. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0813122651-2-6

Inhaltsangabe:

In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for story-telling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Emily Foster is the editor of The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the ...
Verlag: Univ Pr of Kentucky
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Poor