Emily: The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman (Women in the West) - Softcover

Buch 1 von 23: Women in the West

French, Emily

 
9780803268616: Emily: The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman (Women in the West)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803268610 ISBN 13: 9780803268616
Verlag: Bison Books, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

"Oh how I do wish I could have a little help in maintaining my home. I shall dread the cold winter so much. I don't have very good success getting employment," wrote Emily French in her diary in 1890. Emily was recently divorced but received no alimony or child support. She worked as a laundress, cleaning woman, and nurse, first in the farming community of Elbert, Colorado, then in the growing city of Denver, the mining town of Dake, and back into Denver.

Emily's diary discloses an example of the desperate lives lived by many. Having enough money and food is a source of constant anxiety, but her deepest fears center on the loss of family and of home. She becomes discouraged but never gives up, recognizes others less fortunate than herself, and always believes things will change. This is a moving work that provides an unusual look into the life of the working poor in the late-nineteenth-century West.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Janet Lecompte, who lives in Colorado Springs, is the author of Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: The Upper Arkansas, 1832-1856 (1978), Rebellion in Rio Arriba, 1837 (1985), and many articles about the Old West.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

Emily's diary discloses an example of the desperate lives lived by many. Having enough money and food is a source of constant anxiety, but her deepest fears center on the loss of family and of home.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Bison Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803268610
ISBN 13 
9780803268616
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
166
Herausgeber
Lecompte Janet
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Deutschland

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780803228726: Emily: The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman (Women in the West)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0803228724 ISBN 13:  9780803228726
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1987
Hardcover