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Corey Elizabeth |
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Titolo |
An Iowa schoolma'am [[electronic resource] ] : letters of Elizabeth "Bess" Corey, 1904-1908 / / edited by Philip L. Gerber and Charlotte M. Wright ; foreword by Paul Theobald |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GerberPhilip L |
WrightCharlotte M |
TheobaldPaul |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Teachers - Iowa |
Rural schools - Iowa |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Editor's note / by Charlotte M. Wright -- Letters from Corey Farm, October 1904 -- Letters from Walnut, November 1904 to February 1905 -- Letters from Harlan, June 1905 to August 1905 -- Letters from Tennant, September 1905 to June 1906 -- Letters from Harlan, June 1906 to July 1906 -- Letters from Irwin, January 1908 to June 1908 -- Letters from Corey Farm and Harlan, July 1908 to August 1908. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Readers everywhere fell for Elizabeth Corey, the irrepressible, independent, and fearless Bachelor Bess, whose letters home to Iowa gave us a firsthand account of her adventures on a South Dakota homestead from 1909 to 1919. Now, through the letters she wrote home between 1904 and 1908, readers can make the acquaintance of a younger Bess facing the realities of life in an Iowa country school system with energy, enthusiasm, and ambition. Sixteen-year-old Bess wrote her early letters when she was away from the family farm, trying to complete the ninth |
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