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Women of the Gold Rush : "The new Penelope" and other stories / Frances Fuller Victor ; edited with introduction by Ida Rae Egli.
Van Pelt Library PS3129.V57 A6 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Victor, Frances Fuller, 1826-1902.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--California--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- California.
- California--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Oregon--Fiction.
- Oregon.
- Oregon--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- California--Gold discoveries--Fiction.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Women pioneers--California--Fiction.
- Women pioneers.
- Oregon--Gold discoveries--Fiction.
- Women pioneers--Oregon--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 167 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, [1998]
- Summary:
- The reintroduction of a forgotten classic, essential for drawing a complete picture of the West and its true pioneers
- Fiction of the western frontier has long been seen as a man's realm, dominated by such names as Bret Harte, Zane Gray, and Mark Twain. Yet women authors were also writing popular and eloquent prose, providing an alternate -- and illuminating -- view of life in gold rush California.
- Collected in "Women of the Gold Rush" are the stories of Frances Fuller Victor, a popular and highly praised writer in her day. With exceptional insight, Victor depicts the lives and experiences of pioneer women who -- sweeping stereotypes aside -- are strong, intelligent, often angry, and always capable. Women who followed their husbands' whims to the West Coast, traveling by covered wagon or ship, women who became young widows on the trail or who found the isolation of the remote mining cabin unendurable, women who learned to survive in a new and changing society -- all are painted in images as fresh and relevant today as they were then.
- "Women of the Gold Rush" is the outstanding continuation in our series of reprints of worthy and talented women writers of the west, which includes No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California, 1849-1869 and The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1850-1952.
- Contents:
- The new Penelope
- How Jack Hastings sold his mine
- Sam Rice's romance
- Miss Jorgensen
- An old fool.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 1890771031
- OCLC:
- 38930570
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