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A Lantern in Her Hand

A Lantern in Her Hand Paperback - 1994

by Bess Streeter Aldrich

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  • Title A Lantern in Her Hand
  • Author Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 307
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, NE USA
  • Date 1994-01-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013362545
  • ISBN 9780803259225 / 0803259220
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 4.98 x 0.76 in (20.47 x 12.65 x 1.93 cm)
  • Reading level 960
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Plains
    • Geographic Orientation: Nebraska
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93039763
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the rear cover

When A Lantern in Her Hand came out in 1928, critics took little notice, but people everywhere soon discovered it. By the end of 1919, even as the Great Depression set in, Bess Streeter Aldrich's novel was in its twenty-first printing. Now translated into over twenty languages, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. It is the classic story of a pioneer woman. Bess Streeter Aldrich knew what she was writing about. Her protagonist, a strong-minded pioneer woman named Abbie Deal, was modeled on her own mother, who in 1854 had traveled by covered wagon to the Midwest. In A Lantern in Her Hand, Abbie accompanies her family to the soon-to-be state of Nebraska. There, in 1865, she marries and settles into a sod house of her own. The novel describes Abbie's years of child-raising, of making a frontier home able to withstand every adversity. A disciplined writer knowledgeable about true stories of pioneer days in Nebraska, Bess Streeter Aldrich conveys the strength of everyday things, the surprise of familiar faces, and the look of the unspoiled landscape during different seasons. Refusing to be broken by hard experience, Abbie sets a joyful example for her family - and for her readers. This Bison Book edition includes Bess Streeter Aldrich's own story of how she came to write A Lantern in Her Hand.

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This Bison Books edition includes Bess Streeter Aldrich's own story of how she came to write A Lantern in Her Hand. Among the other Aldrich books reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press is A White Bird Flying (first published in 1931), the sequel to A Lantern in Her Hand.