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Sophie Halenczik, American / by Rose C. Feld ; drawings by Alajálov.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS3511.E4 S6xn
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feld, Rose C. (Rose Caroline), 1895-1981, author.
- Series:
- Archives of Czechs and Slovaks Abroad.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--War work--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Women in war--Fiction.
- Women in war.
- Czechoslovak Americans--Fiction.
- Czechoslovak Americans.
- Immigrants--United States--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Women cleaning personnel--United States--Fiction.
- Women cleaning personnel.
- Americanization--Fiction.
- Americanization.
- United States.
- War work.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1943.
- Summary:
- Short stories about a patriotic immigrant cleaning woman's experiences on the home front during World War II, some of which originally appeared in the New Yorker.
- Contents:
- Sophie's son goes to camp
- Sophie Halenczik's greenhorns
- Sophie's war romance
- Sophie finds a way
- Sophie remembers
- Sophie makes a speech
- Sophie gets a pair of pants
- Sohie's war-evacué practice
- Sophie sells war bonds
- Sophie buys a present
- A letter from Frankie.
- Notes:
- Entry number 2491 in Esther Jerabek's bibliography Czechs and Slovaks in North America.
- Local Notes:
- From the Michael Novak Collection.
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Feld, Rose C. (Rose Caroline), b. 1895. Sophie Halenczik, American.
- OCLC:
- 1281121
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