Sisters of Fortune: The True Story of 3 Motherless Sisters Who Saved Their Home and Raised Their Younger Brother While Their Father Went Fortune Hunting in the California Gold Rush - Softcover

Heffernan, Nancy Coffey;Stecker

 
9780874516517: Sisters of Fortune: The True Story of 3 Motherless Sisters Who Saved Their Home and Raised Their Younger Brother While Their Father Went Fortune Hunting in the California Gold Rush
Softcover
ISBN 10: 087451651X ISBN 13: 9780874516517
Verlag: University Press of New England, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

In 1850 , James Wilson, a widowed congressman from Keene, New Hampshire, left his three daughters and young son to seek his fortune in the California gold rush. During his twelve year absence, the daughters wrote their father almost 350 letters filled with accounts of daily life and lively observations on local and national events. The daughters -- Mary Elizabeth, 24, Annie, 18, and Charlotte, 16, when their father left -- were conventional, upper-middle-class young women struggling to keep up appearances in a society that accorded them few rights. These letters and the story they tell constitute a valuable social and cultural document and offer readers a vivid description of mid-19th century American life.

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Críticas

"What Nancy Coffey Heffernan and Ann Page Stecker have done in Sisters of Fortune is to edit these letters into a remarkable documentary history of the Wilson daughters . . . the girls paid the bills, harvested the crops. They grew up, because women, and then wives, and then mothers. They steered young Jamie into Harvard. They did survive, as a family and as individuals; and Sisters of Fortune is an extraordinary account of this survival." --New York Times Book Review

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In 1850, James Wilson, a widowed congressman from Keene, New Hampshire, left his three daughters and young son to seek his fortune in the California gold rush. During his twelve year absence, the daughters wrote their father almost 350 letters filled with accounts of daily life and lively observations on local and national events. The daughters -- Mary Elizabeth, 24, Annie, 18, and Charlotte, 16, when their father left -- were conventional, upper-middle-class young women struggling to keep up appearances in a society that accorded them few rights. These letters and the story they tell constitute a valuable social and cultural document and offer readers a vivid description of mid-19th century American life.

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Verlag
University Press of New England
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
087451651X
ISBN 13 
9780874516517
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
289
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