Writing the Pioneer Woman

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University of Missouri Press, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 228 pages
Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts, published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American frontier. In an attempt to determine the meanings found in the pioneer woman's everyday writings -- from records of recipes to descriptions of washing floors -- Janet Floyd explores domestic details in the autobiographical writing of British and Anglo-American female emigrants.
 

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
TO RECOVER THOSE ONCE LOST
7
A TRADITION OF PIONEERS
18
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
43
RECIPES FOR SUCCESS
76
DOMESTICITY AND DIRT
102
A SPACE IN WHICH TO BE IMAGINATIVE
124
PLOTTING THE GOLDEN WEST
145
Anne Langtons Journal and Memoir
167
CONCLUSION
187
WORKS CITED
193
INDEX
217
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TitleWriting the Pioneer Woman
AuthorJanet Floyd
PublisherUniversity of Missouri Press, 2002
ISBN0826262651, 9780826262653
Length228 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration
  
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