Daughter Of Earth by Agnes Smedley
This lyrical autobiographical novel tells the story of Marie Rodgers, born into harsh rural poverty in northern Missouri at the end of the last century. Hers is a family nurtured in poverty: her father a charming but shiftless itinerant worker, her mother undernourished and overworked. In a world where the choices for a woman are marriage or prostitution, Marie is fiercely determined to choose neither. Struggling to educate herself, haunted by the family she leaves behind, Marie's restless nature cannot reconcile sexual desire with love and comradeship. Marriage ends in divorce, political involvement in imprisonment, a passionate love affair in betrayal. But through all this Marie finds herself. With the past conquered, a new future lies ahead.
A remarkable story, very simply told.. a kind of fierce crucible of recollection and self-searching * TLS *
Agnes Smedley (1982-1950) was born in rural northwest Missouri. She worked with Margaret Sandler in the birth control movement and was imprisoned for her involvement in the Indian nationalist movement. She moved to Europe and wrote many famous accounts of the great events of the period. She died in Oxford in 1950.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780860680048 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860680045 |
| Title | Daughter Of Earth |
| Author | Agnes Smedley |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1977-07-14 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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