An Iowa schoolma'am : letters of Elizabeth "Bess" Corey, 1904-1908
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An Iowa schoolma'am : letters of Elizabeth "Bess" Corey, 1904-1908
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edited by Philip L. Gerber and Charlotte M. Wright ; foreword by Paul Theobald.
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Publication Information:
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxi, 191 pages) : illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781587299612
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Abstract:
Readers everywhere fell for Elizabeth Corey, the irrepressible, independent, and fearless Bachelor Bess, whose letters home to Iowa gave us a firsthand account of her adventures on a South Dakota homestead from 1909 to 1919. Now, through the letters she wrote home between 1904 and 1908, readers can make the acquaintance of a younger Bess facing the realities of life in an Iowa country school system with energy, enthusiasm, and ambition.℗¡Sixteen-year-old Bess wrote her early letters when she was away from the family farm, trying to complete the ninth grade so she could become a teacher. That sc.
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UAF Rasmuson Library Ebook Central subscription access.
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
Editor's note / by Charlotte M. Wright -- Letters from Corey Farm, October 1904 -- Letters from Walnut, November 1904 to February 1905 -- Letters from Harlan, June 1905 to August 1905 -- Letters from Tennant, September 1905 to June 1906 -- Letters from Harlan, June 1906 to July 1906 -- Letters from Irwin, January 1908 to June 1908 -- Letters from Corey Farm and Harlan, July 1908 to August 1908.
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Print version record.