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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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A Girl of the Limberlost Illustrated
Author: Gene Stratton PorterPublisher: Independently Published
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel by American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was published in August 1909. It is considered a classic of Indiana literature. It is the sequel to her earlier novel Freckles. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp. Even at the time, this impressive wetland region was being reduced by heavy logging, natural oil extraction and drainage for agriculture. (The swamp and forestland eventually ceased to exist, though projects since the 1990s have begun to restore a small part of it.)
Ruined By Reading
Author: Lynne Sharon SchwartzPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807071005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word.
Freckles
Author: Gene Stratton-PorterPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253324719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
When orphaned Freckles gets a job watching Mr. McLean's valuable Limberlost timber, he thinks that he has at last found a home. But the Limberlost gives him much more than that--a lasting knowledge of nature, a woman who loves him, and the secret of his noble birth. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
A Daughter of the Land (1918), by Gene Stratton Porter (Fine Classics)
Author: Gene Stratton PorterPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533625397
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Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
If you loved Gene Stratton-Porter's A Girl of the Limberlost, be sure to add her later novel A Daughter of the Land to your reading list. The family that serves as the focus of the novel isn't perfect, but they manage to fix their foibles and come together to make something beautiful and lasting. It's an engaging read for anyone who's ever fantasized about leaving city life behind and living off the land. Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 - December 6, 1924) was an American author, early naturalist, nature photographer, and one of the first women to form a movie studio and production company, Gene Stratton-Porter Productions, Inc. She wrote several best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCall's. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have had 50 million readers around the world.She used her position and income as a well-known author to support conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana.She was born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana near Lagro. She was the twelfth and last child born to Mary and Mark Stratton.Early on, her family shortened her name to Geneve and she later shortened it further to Gene. Stratton-Porter's novel Laddie corresponds in many particulars with her early life, and Gene herself described this as the most auto-biographical novel. For example, the narrative takes place in the first person, with the story being related by the twelfth child of the "Stanton" family. The name of the beloved older brother (title character) "Laddie" is identical with Stratton-Porter's own treasured brother who died in an accident when she was young. As in Stratton-Porter's own family, the novelized Laddie is connected with the land and identifies with their father's vocation.Despite not finishing high school, Gene became an avid reader and lifelong scholar of ecology and wildlife.
Choice
Author: Choice Reviews in Women's Studies, 1990-96
Author: Association of College and Research LibrariesPublisher: Association of College & Research Libraries
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This is a collection of reviews, that appeared in CHOICE magazine, of over 2,000 women's studies titles. Arranged alphabetically by subject matter, using the editor's classifications, each entry reprints the text of the original review, gives bibliographic data and indicates readership level.
The Publishers Weekly
Author: The Nation and Athenæum
Author: Delinquents and Debutantes
Author: Sherrie A. InnessPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081473765X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. Although girls' culture has until now received comparatively little attention from scholars, this work confirms that understanding the culture of girls is essential to understanding how gender works in our society. Making a significant contribution to a long-neglected area of social and cultural inquiry, Delinquents and Debutantes will be of central interest to those in women's studies, American studies, history, literature, and cultural studies.
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