With Trailing Banners

(no dust jacket) [solid clean copy, slight bumping at all corners, very slight exposure of boards at bottom corners, small vintage bookseller's stamp at bottom of front pastedown]. Another unknown book by another forgotten author (my speciality!). Born in 1877, she served in the United States Indian Field Service (the educational wing, if you will, of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) from 1902 until 1918, when she married and (according to one brief biography) commenced her writing career, which wasn't especially prolific: in addition to this book, she published only two others, plus a play ("Woman of Character") written for a cast of nine women. Although she sometimes drew upon her expierences with Native Americans in her books, this particular one is set in a village in upstate New York, close to the Canadian border, and deals with (in the words of a contemporary viewer) "country life at its lowest level." One writer lauded the novel as showing "deep insight into the problems of adolescence and into the ideals of womanhood," one of those comments that doesn't really say anything at all. The author's scrapbooks are held in the archives of the Arizona Historical Society, should you care to investigate her ouevre further.

Product Info

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart

Year: 1930

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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