Sisters of Fortune:

Letters compiled and edited by Nancy Coffey Heffernan and Ann Page Stecker.;

ISBN 10: 087451651X ISBN 13: 9780874516517

Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire / London, England, 1993

Language: English

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Sisters of Fortune:

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University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire / London, England

Publication Date

1993

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English

ISBN 10

087451651X

ISBN 13

9780874516517

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Softcover

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Very good condition.

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In 1850 , James Wilson, a widowed congressman from Keene, New Hampshire, left his three daughters and young son to seek his fortune in the California gold rush. During his twelve year absence, the daughters wrote their father almost 350 letters filled with accounts of daily life and lively observations on local and national events. The daughters -- Mary Elizabeth, 24, Annie, 18, and Charlotte, 16, when their father left -- were conventional, upper-middle-class young women struggling to keep up appearances in a society that accorded them few rights. These letters and the story they tell constitute a valuable social and cultural document and offer readers a vivid description of mid-19th century American life.

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