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Such News Of The Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers, Thomas S. Edwards, Elizabeth A. Dewolfe
Such News Of The Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers, Thomas S. Edwards, Elizabeth A. Dewolfe
History Faculty Books
This pathbreaking collection, which contains 19 essays from scholars in a variety of fields, illuminates the work of two centuries of American women nature writers. Some discuss traditional nature writers such as Susan Fenimore Cooper, Mary Austin, Gene Stratton Porter, and Annie Dillard. Others examine the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Anzaldua, and Leslie Marmon Silko, writers not often associated with this genre. Essays on germinal texts such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas's The Everglades: River of Grass stand alongside examinations of market bulletins and women's gardens, showing how the rich diversity of women's nature writing has shaped and expanded …
For The Cobweb Club: Mottoes, Margaret J. M. Sweat
For The Cobweb Club: Mottoes, Margaret J. M. Sweat
Annals of the Cobweb Club
Ribbon-bound booklet containing handwritten mottoes for the Cobweb Club.
Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat Diary, 1849-1880, Margaret J. M. Sweat
Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat Diary, 1849-1880, Margaret J. M. Sweat
Diary, 1849-1880
Diary of Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat with entries dating from 1849-1880. Includes several clippings and photographs pasted in.
Annals Of The Cobweb Club, Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat
Annals Of The Cobweb Club, Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat
Annals of the Cobweb Club
Book containing hand-written notes from meetings of the Cobweb Club, a women's organization with which Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat was heavily involved. Contents include lists of special guests, notes on meeting discussions, and a drawing of flowers and a cobweb in the front of the book. Inserts and clippings are included in the order they are found within the book.