Kim Bancroft

Writing Themselves Into History

Emily and Matilda Bancroft in Journals and Letters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An exploration of the lives of Emily Bancroft and Matilda Bancroft, and what their experiences reveal about life in the nineteenth-century American West"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Heyday Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781597145886
• ISBN-10: 1597145882
• Artikelnr.: 63246019

Autorenporträt

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
 
Part I
Emily Ketchum Bancroft: A Life in Letters
Chapter 1        Emily, Hubert, and Daughter Kate at Home
Chapter 2        Managing a Household in the 1860s
Chapter 3        Society Around Them
Chapter 4        The World of Travel
Chapter 5        Emily’s Demise
 
Part II
Matilda Coley Griffing Bancroft: A Writer in Her Own Right
Chapter 6        A Meeting of Minds
Chapter 7        Becoming a Writer
Chapter 8        “Lovingly, Mamma”: Matilda as Mother
Chapter 9        Matilda as Teacher
Chapter 10      A Craving to Take Dictations: Matilda as Oral Historian
Chapter 11      Businesswoman, Dreamer, and Schemer
Chapter 12      “Most Beloved of Women”
 
Epilogue          Climbing the Family Tree: Kate, Lucy, and Their Families
 
Acknowledgements
Family Chronology
Notes
Index
About the Author