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A lantern in her hand / Bess Streeter Aldrich.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 47
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Aldrich, Bess Streeter, 1881-1954.
Contributor:
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Frontier and pioneer life--Nebraska--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Nebraska.
Women pioneers--Nebraska--Fiction.
Women pioneers.
Families--Nebraska--Fiction.
Families.
Genre:
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Fournier, C. W. (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Fournier, Isabelle R. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Physical Description:
306 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1932.
Summary:
Abbie Deal was born in Iowa during the 1800's. This novel tells how she moved to Nebraska as a bride and struggled with hardship and poverty to help her husband raise a family and provide for them.
Local Notes:
Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy has stamp ("C.W. FOURNIER") of C.W. Fournier on front pastedown; dated 20th-century autograph ("Isabelle R. Fournier Jany 1938") of Isabelle R. Fournier in pencil on p. [307].
Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
OCLC:
5508752

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