Joyce of the North Woods / by Harriet T. Comstock ... ; illustrated by John Cassel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa), 1860-1943, author.

Contributor:

Cassel, John Harmon, 1872-1961, illustrator.

Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lumber camps--Fiction.

Lumber camps.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Wife abuse--Fiction.

Wife abuse.

Penn Provenance:

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

Becker, Cora Bielby, 1878-1973 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Bielby, Earl Markham, 1890-1973 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Jessup, Jane Bielby, 1886-1962 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Brown, Jane Higham, 1886-1959 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Bates, Cora Humphrey Coonrod, 1886-1968 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Isgro, Edna Shaw, 1889-1979 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Dersey, Emily M., 1887-1965 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Hale, Cora Pitcher, 1884-1965 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Hale, Frederick Ferdinand, 1880-1957 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

McDonald, Jennie Wise, 1877-1970 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Guernsey, Jennie Scott, 1845-1913 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Spriggs, Ruth Ann, 1887-1945 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Spriggs, Dorothy Graves, 1886-1919 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Hayes, Mae Crowell, 1887-1971 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Spriggs, Sarah Carr, 1877-1919 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Smith, Florence (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[7], vi-viii, [2], 390, [2] pages (last 2 pages blank), [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911.

Notes:

Frontispiece and plates facing pages 76, 114 and 188.

Binding: green cloth stamped in white, brown and gilt.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has affixed to half-title leaf a typescript leaf ("[1.] Miss Cora Bielby--'Joyce of the No[rth] Woods' 2. Mr. Earl Bielby---'The Cabin' 3. Miss Jane Bielby--'Flamstead Quarry' 4. Miss Jane Higham--'The Iron Woman' 5. Miss Cora Humphrey-'The Winning of Barbara Worth' 6. Miss Edna Shaw----'Joey, the Dreamer' 7. Miss Emily Dersey--'The Following of the Star' 8. Mrs. Fred Hale -----'Kennedy Square' 9. Mr. Fred Hale------'The Harvester' 10. Mrs. Jennie McDonald-'Strawberry Acres' 11. Mrs. Guernsey--'The Boss of Wind River' 12. Miss Ruth Spriggs--'Two on the Trail' 13. Mrs. Arthur Spriggs-'The Golden Silence' 14. Mrs. Hayes----------'Cicely' 15. Mrs. Ernest Spriggs-'A Weaver of Dreams' 16. Mrs. Florence Smith-'The Sick-A-Bed Lady' Please pass this book Friday, November [thi]rd, and every two weeks thereafter.") recording the members of a reading group in Rome, N.Y., and the titles they would be reading beginning on 3 November 1911. The people listed are Cora Lillian Bielby (later Becker; 1878-1973), Earl Markham Bielby (1890-1973), Jane Shelley Bielby (later Jessup; 1886-1962), Jane Stevens Higham (later Brown; 1886-1959), Cora Humphrey (later Coonrod, subsequently Bates; 1886-1968), Edna May Shaw (later Isgro; 1889-1979), Emily M. Dersey (1887-1965), Cora May Hale (née Pitcher; 1884-1965), Frederick Ferdinand Hale (1880-1957), Jennie May McDonald (née Wise; 1877-1970), Jennie Guernsey (née Scott; 1845-1913), Ruth Ann Spriggs (1887-1945), Dorothy Isabelle Spriggs (née Graves; 1886-1919), Mae J. Hayes (née Crowell; 1887-1971), Sarah R. Spriggs (née Carr; 1877-1919), and Florence Smith (possibly to be identified with Florence Loftus Smith, 1870-1956, or Florence Kaufman Smith, 1886-1977).

OCLC:

10580847