Adventures of a California Woman in the Twentieth Century - Softcover

Dorothy Lord Moore

9781932252682: Adventures of a California Woman in the Twentieth Century

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932252681 ISBN 13: 9781932252682

Publisher: Janet Moore McKnew, 2011

Preface;
The Adventures of a California Woman in the Twentieth Century is a personal story of how a girl grew up in one environment and came to maturity in another, how she found love and fulfillment after certain false starts, and how, like the woman in the Book of Proverbs, she became the valiant woman, praised by all at the gates of the city. And through it all, Dorothy Lord Moore remained a kind of 1920's girl, which is to say, something of a flapper all her life: fun-loving, independent, making up her own mind, but never prematurely judging others, aligned with a wide range of friends, who were both like her and very different.
Mothers and daughters have a special relationship. There are certain things about life that only a mother can teach a daughter, and there are certain satisfactions in life that only a daughter can give her mother. This is why, most likely, Janet McKnew has so lovingly and skillfully edited her mother's memoir. Dorothy Lord Moore belonged to a generation of women who, whatever else happened, made the best of things: a generation born into the optimism of the Edwardian era and the exuberance of the 1920s, but forced to face the Depression and the Second World War as well.
Because she lived a long and active life, Dorothy Lord Moore was on hand to enjoy all this alongside the next generation of American women who were exploring for themselves the possibilities and the limitations of the American Dream, California style.

From the Preface by Dr. Kevin Starr, Professor of History at the University of Southern California; California State Librarian Emeritus; and author of the "Americans and the California Dream" series. In 2006, Dr. Starr received the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush for his work as a scholar and historian.

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About the Author:

Dorothy Lord Moore represents a woman born in 1908 who began keeping a daily journal at the age of 12 until she died at the age of 93. She will take you back in time to Rutherford, New Jersey, to see what daily life was like in the early 1900s. Travel across the country with her in 1919 to California where her life unfolds until her death in 2001.

Venture back in time around the period when the Lincoln head penny replaced the Indian head penny and it would cost four cents for a loaf of bread. Imagine riding a velocipede with the wind blowing through your hair until the neighborhood bully gets a hold of you. Compared to life today, was life so different growing up a hundred years ago?

Dorothy documents her personal view of history in the Twentieth Century from her journals, including her narrow escape from becoming another wife to the "most married man" in the Guinness Book of World Records. Her trials, triumphs and treasures are mixed with humor, honesty and humility. Follow Dorothy through her Adventures of a California Woman in the Twentieth Century.

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