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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.

Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
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).