American Grit : A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier / edited by Emily Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bentley, Anna Briggs, 1796-1890.

Contributor:

Foster, Emily, 1945-

Series:

Ohio River Valley series.

Ohio River Valley Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pioneers--Ohio River Valley--Correspondence.

Pioneers.

Women pioneers--Ohio River Valley--Correspondence.

Women pioneers.

Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio River Valley.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Ohio River Valley--Social life and customs--19th century.

Ohio River Valley.

Bentley, Anna Briggs, 1796-1890--Correspondence.

Bentley, Anna Briggs.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the

Contents:

1826-1827

1828-1830

1831-1835

1836-1842

1843-1847

1850-1858

The years later.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-328) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-9267-6

0-8131-2951-6

0-8131-4941-X

OCLC:

933515970