American Grit : A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Foster, Emily, 1945- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bentley, Anna Briggs, > 1796-1890.
Bentley, Anna Briggs, > 1796-1890 > Correspondence.
Vrouwen.
Women pioneers.
Pioneers.
Manners and customs.
Frontier and pioneer life.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Pionniers > Ohio, Vallee de l' > Correspondance.
Pionnieres > Ohio, Vallee de l' > Correspondance.
Pioneers > Ohio River Valley > Correspondence.
Women pioneers > Ohio River Valley > Correspondence.
Frontier and pioneer life > Ohio River Valley.
Ohio River Valley.
Ohio, Vallee de l' > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siecle.
Ohio River Valley > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Personal correspondence.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 storytelling 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (360 pages): illustrations, maps, photographs
ISBN:9780813149417

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