An Iowa Schoolma'am - Letters of Elizabeth ''bess'' Corey, 1904-1908

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.

About the author

Philip Gerber (1923-2005) was Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York at Brockport and the editor of Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 (Iowa, 1990). Charlotte Wright is managing editor at the University of Iowa Press and the author of Plain and Ugly Janes: The Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction (Iowa paperback, 2000).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Corey, Philip L. (EDT)/ Wright Gerber
• Assisted by: Philip L. Gerber (Editor), Charlotte Wright (Editor), Charlotte M. Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2011
• EAN: 9781587299605
• ISBN: 978-1-58729-960-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History