Women Writers of the West: Five Chroniclers of the Frontier

by Julie Danneberg

Overview

Told in a unique first-person creative nonfiction narrative, Women Writers of the West profiles five women driven to write and succeed at a time when ambition in women was viewed as a flaw, not an asset—Helen Hunt Jackson, Jessie Benton Fremont, Louise Clappe, Mary Hallock Foote, Gertrude Bonnin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555914646
Publisher:	Fulcrum Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Series:	Notable Western Women Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Julie Danneberg, a third-generation Colorado native, grew up listening to stories about her grandmother, a miner's daughter, and her great-grandmother, an Irish immigrant turned miner's wife. Love of these women and their stories started her lifelong admiration of all courageous women of the West.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	v
	Jessie Benton Fremont	1
	Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe	17
	Mary Hallock Foote	33
	Helen Hunt Jackson	49
	Gertrude Bonnin	67
	Index	86