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The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton : a novel / Jane Smiley.
LIBRA PS3569.M39 A79 1999 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smiley, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Widows.
- Women pioneers.
- History.
- United States--History--1815-1861--Fiction.
- United States.
- Women pioneers--Missouri--Fiction.
- Widows--Missouri--Fiction.
- Abolitionists--Fiction.
- Abolitionists.
- Missouri.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Adventure fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 452 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Fawcett Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fawcett Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- Plain, independent Lidie Harkness, impatient with the restrictions placed on women in mid-nineteenth century Illinois, jumps at the chance to marry New England abolitionist Thomas Newton and travel with him to the Kansas Territory where they embark on a dangerous quest to stop the spread of slavery.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
- Includes a reading group discussion guide [13 p.] after p. 452.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0449910830
- 9780449910832
- OCLC:
- 40688597
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