Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Illustration on front cover of a woman standing with her luggage, next to a railroad.
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West
Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Illustration on front cover of a woman standing with her luggage, next to a railroad.
Mary Hallock Foote
Author: Darlis A. MillerPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Devoted wife and mother. Acclaimed novelist, illustrator, and interpreter of the American West. At a time when society expected women to concentrate on family and hearth, Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) published twelve novels, four short story collections, almost two dozen stories and essays, and innumerable illustrations. In Mary Hallock Foote, Darlis A. Willer examines the life of this gifted and spirited woman from the East as she adapted herself and her artistic vision to the West. Foote's images of the American West differed sharply from those offered by male artists and writers of the time. She depicted a more gentle West, a domestic West of families and settlements rather than a Wild West of soldiers, American Indians, and cowboys. Miller examines how Foote's career was molded by the East-West tensions she experienced throughout her adult life and by society's expectations of womanhood and motherhood. This biography recounts Foote’s Quaker upbringing; her education at the School of Design for Women at Cooper Union, New York; her marriage to Arthur De Wint Foote, including his alcohol problems; her life in Boise, Idaho, and later Grass Valley, California; her grief over the early death of daughter Agnes Foote; and the previously unexplored last two decades of her life. Miller has made extensive use of every major archive of letters and documents by and about Foote. She sheds light on Foote's numerous stories, essays, and novels. And examines all pertinent sources on Foote's life and works. Anyone interested in the American West, women's history, or life histories in general will find Miller's biography of Mary Hallock Foote fascinating,
Angle of Repose
Author: Wallace StegnerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101872764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner—a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote
Author: Megan Riley McGilchristPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1647790190
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Combining a breadth of scholarship, insightful critical thinking, and an engaging personal interaction with Mary Hallock Foote’s substantial collection of illustrations and writings, Megan Riley McGilchrist provides a significant contribution to western literature and the lives of western writers. Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote opens a window into the remarkable, little-known nineteenth-century personal history of accomplished American author and illustrator, Mary Hallock Foote, a woman both of her time, and ahead of it. When Mary gave up a successful career as an illustrator in New York to follow her husband, a mining engineer, to the West, she found herself in a new, unfamiliar, and often challenging world—sometimes feeling like an exile. The thousands of pages of her unpublished letters, which form the foundation of this book, give rare insight into the process of acculturation and eventually the transformation that she experienced. This wide-ranging analysis also examines the role that nature and Mary’s lifelong connection with the natural world played in her adaptation to the western mining towns where she spent much of the rest of her life. In many ways, Mary’s life mirrored that of author Megan Riley McGilchrist, whose parallel exile began in 1977 when she left America for England. Drawing equivalences with Mary’s life as an exile and her own life as an expatriate American woman, Megan provides a meditation on her own transformation, as much as on Mary’s. Megan demonstrates what it has been like to be a twenty-first-century American expatriate, Californian-turned-Londoner—to find common ground in the life of a nineteenth-century woman. Comprising elements of biography, literary analysis, history, and personal history, and containing many unpublished excerpts from Mary’s voluminous correspondence, Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote offers insight into the ways Mary perceived the world around her. It also provides insight into the experiences of exiles of any time—people who have left a familiar environment to embark on a new life in a new and not necessarily comfortable setting.
Mary Hallock Foote
Author: Doris Bickford-SwarthoutPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Desert And The Sown
Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361151096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Mary Hallock Foote's memoir, The Desert and the Sown was first released in 1902. The experiences the author had while residing in the American West in the late 1800s are chronicled in the book. After relocating from the East Coast to a small mining town in Idaho, Foote and her husband found it difficult to make ends meet and adjust to life in the hostile desert climate. Foote talks about the hardships of starting a family, bringing up kids, and surviving the loneliness and seclusion of frontier life. In addition, she discusses the intricate interactions that exist between the government, Native Americans, and settlers as well as the effects of industrialization on the environment. A remarkable time in American history is vividly and perceptively portrayed in The Desert and the Sown. “Once she got over me, I knew she would have enough friends. That was the situation we were in. The act of returning her letter to its original location and leaving it with him caused me the greatest pain.
In Exile; And Other Stories
Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387317980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The Led-Horse Claim
Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Mary Hallock Foote
Author: Lee Ann JohnsonPublisher: Boston : Twayne
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Touch of Sun; And Other Stories
Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338731888X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.