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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Foster, Emily, 1945- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Colección:Ohio River Valley series.
Temas:
Bentley, Anna Briggs, > 1796-1890 > Correspondence.
Bentley, Anna Briggs, > 1796-1890.
1800-1899
Frontier and pioneer life > Ohio River Valley.
Women pioneers > Ohio River Valley > Correspondence.
Pioneers > Ohio River Valley > Correspondence.
Pionnières > Ohio, Vallée de l' > Correspondance.
Pionniers > Ohio, Vallée de l' > Correspondance.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Manners and customs.
Pioneers.
Women pioneers.
Vrouwen.
Ohio River Valley > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Ohio, Vallée de l' > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
Ohio River Valley.
Personal correspondence.
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 (363 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, photographs
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813149417
081314941X

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