A mountain woman / by Elia W. Peattie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935, author.

Contributor:

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, binding designer.

Way & Williams, publisher.

John Wilson and Son, printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1896.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1896.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Davol, Edith Allen (bookplate) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Allen, Annie Odell (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

251 pages ; 18 cm

Manufacture:

Cambridge [Mass.], U.S.A. : University Press, John Wilson and Son

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Way & Williams, 1896.

Summary:

Elia Wilkinson Peattie was a prolific fiction writer who detailed her experiences as a woman in the West in dozens of essays, short stories, and novels. In "A Mountain Woman," Peattie gives us the entertaining tale of a sophisticated New York City architect who marries a rustic but eminently practical woman from the mountains of Colorado and brings her back to the East to mingle with high society.

Contents:

A mountain woman

Jim Lancy's Waterloo

The three Johns

A resuscitation

Two pioneers

Up the gulch

A Michigan man

A lady of yesterday.

Notes:

Reprinted from various periodicals.

Cover designed by Bruce Rogers.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has illustrated bookplate ("EDITH ALLEN DAVOL") of Edith Bruce Allen Davol (1875-1950) affixed to front pastedown; dated 19th-century ms. gift inscription ("For dear Mother With love from Edith January 15.th 1900") on front free endpaper, probably recording the gift of this volume by Edith Bruce Allen (who married Joseph B. Davol in 1916) to her mother Annie Odell Allen (1845-1926).

Cited in:

Haas, I. Bruce Rogers, 9

Other Format:

Online version: Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935. Mountain woman.

OCLC:

2560055