Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart (Women in the West) - Hardcover

George, Susanne K.; Stewart, Elinore Pruitt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080322141X ISBN 13: 9780803221413

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1992

Synopsis

Generations of readers have delighted in Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914) and Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915), among the most engaging accounts of life in the American West. Stewart related her adventures on an isolated Wyoming homestead with such vividness, gusto, and sympathy that she has become the woman homesteader. Until now, however, little has been known about her except what she chose to reveal in her published letters. Old friends and new acquaintances alike will welcome this book combining Stewart's previously unpublished or uncollected letters with Susanne K. George's extensive research. Here is as full and candid a portrait as wella re ever likely to have of The Woman Homesteader: the illness, disappointments, and grinding hard work that lay behind her genial public persona; the family, neighbors, and correspondents who peopled her letter-stories and shared her life. George has discovered in Elinore Pruitt Stewart a story fully as rewarding as any told by the Woman Homesteader herself. In an afterword George considers Stewart's use of fictional devices and her growth as a writer as well as her place in American letters.

About this title

About the Author

Susanne K. George is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Kearney who specializes in western and women's literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080322141X
• ISBN 13: 9780803221413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240