02844nam 2200661 a 450 991096207440332120240516113004.097815872996121587299615(CKB)2670000000092147(EBL)843305(OCoLC)727367264(SSID)ssj0000523552(PQKBManifestationID)11349604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523552(PQKBWorkID)10542748(PQKB)11645998(MdBmJHUP)muse3002(Au-PeEL)EBL843305(CaPaEBR)ebr10467781(MiAaPQ)EBC843305(Perlego)2958354(EXLCZ)99267000000009214720101018d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAn Iowa schoolma'am letters of Elizabeth "Bess" Corey, 1904-1908 /edited by Philip L. Gerber and Charlotte M. Wright ; foreword by Paul Theobald1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20111 online resource (226 p.)A bur oak book"A Bur Oak book."9781587299605 1587299607 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 ninthBur oak book.TeachersIowaCorrespondenceRural schoolsIowaTeachersRural schools371.10092BCorey Elizabeth1807205Gerber Philip L1807206Wright Charlotte M948560Theobald Paul1807207MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962074403321An Iowa schoolma'am4356805UNINA