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American Grit : A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a American Grit : |b A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier / |c edited by Emily Foster. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Lexington, Kentucky : |b The University Press of Kentucky, |c 2009. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: 1826-1827; Chapter Two: 1828-1830; Chapter Three: 1831-1835; Illustration; Chapter Four: 1836-1842; Chapter Five: 1843-1847; Chapter Six: 1850-1858; Chapter Seven: The Later Years; Epilogue; Appendix One: The Children of Roger Brooke IV and Mary Matthews Brooke; Appendix Two: The Children of Isaac Briggs and Hannah Brooke Briggs; Appendix Three: The Children of Joseph E. Bentley and Anna Briggs Bentley; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Bentley, Anna Briggs, |d 1796-1890 |v Correspondence. |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Manners and customs. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Frontier and pioneer life. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00935370 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |z United States |x State & Local |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Pionniers |z Ohio, Vallee de l' |v Correspondance. | |
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