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Recovering Ruth : a biographer's tale / Robert Root.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks CT 21 .R66 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Root, Robert L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Root, Robert L.
- Douglass, Ruth, 1824-1850.
- Douglass, Ruth.
- Biography as a literary form--Case studies.
- Biography as a literary form.
- Biographers--United States.
- Biographers.
- Women pioneers--Michigan--Isle Royale--Diaries.
- Women pioneers.
- Michigan--Isle Royale.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- diaries.
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 189 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2003.
- Contents:
- A Naïve Form of Love and Identification
- Conjecturing a Life
- Something of a Back Woods Life
- A Journal of Our Migrations
- The Wind of Circumstances
- Banished to a Desolate Island
- The Fleetness of Time
- Family Charts.
- Notes:
- A 2004 Michigan Notable Books selection
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Root, Robert L. Recovering Ruth.
- ISBN:
- 0803289928
- 9780803289925
- OCLC:
- 50333770
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- Publisher description
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