American Grit by Anna Briggs Bentley
In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for story-telling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.
A sterling example of current practices representing nineteenth-century American women- RITA KOHN
Emily Foster is the editor of The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780813122656 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813122651 |
| Title | American Grit |
| Author | Anna Briggs Bentley |
| Series | Ohio River Valley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University Press of Kentucky |
| Year published | 2003-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |