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Item Details
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AMERICAN GRIT
A WOMAN'S LETTERS FROM THE OHIO FRONTIER |
| By: |
Anna Briggs Bentley, Emily Foster (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£53.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813122651 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813122656 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 2002 |
| Series: |
Ohio River Valley S. |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
In 1826, Anna Briggs Bentley, a pioneer woman, left her close Quaker community for frontier Ohio along with her husband and their six children. Presented here are her letters set in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
8 illustrations, 2 maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The University Press of Kentucky |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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