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A Lantern in Her Hand

By - Aldrich Bess Streeter
Floor - Floor 3
Published - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, [1994]
ISBN 10 - 0803259220
ISBN 13 - 9780803259225
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Domestic fiction
Shelf No - 3
Call Number - 813 ALD
Physical Description - ix, 306 pages ; 21 cm
Book Information
First published in 1928, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In this classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbie Deal on her own mother, who in 1854 had traveled by covered wagon to the Midwest. In A Lantern in Her Hand, Abbie accompanies her family to the soon-to-be-state of Nebraska. There, in 1865, she marries and settles into her own sod house. The novel describes Abbie's years of child-raising, of making a frontier home able to withstand every adversity. A Disciplined writer knowledgeable about true stories of pioneer days in Nebraska, Bess Streeter Aldrich conveys the strength of everyday things, the surprise of familiar faces, and the look of the unspoiled landscape during different seasons. Refusing to be broken by hard experience, Abbie sets a joyful example for her family—and for her readers.

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