Edna and John: A Romance of Idaho Flat

Duniway, Abigail Scott (Author); Shein, Debra (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0874221889 / ISBN 13: 9780874221886

Edité par Washington State University Press, Pullman, WA, 2000

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Mild shelf wear to edges and corners of cover and spine. Binding remains tight and pages are mostly clean and unbent. Good used reading condition.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Edna and John: A Romance of Idaho Flat
• Éditeur: Washington State University Press, Pullman, WA
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0874221889
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780874221886
• Reliure: Trade Paperback
• Édition: First Printing.
• État de l'article: Good+
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Type de livre: Used Book

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Synopsis

Oregon's Abigail Scott Duniway was the Northwest's most influential advocate for women's rights, whose two newspapers, the New Northwest and the Pacific Empire, rallied suffragists in the late nineteenth century.

Duniway originally published Edna and John serially in the New Northwest in 1876 and 1877. It is presented here in book form for the first time. The story of a married couple, Edna and John Smith, who move to southern Idaho in the 1860s during the gold mining frenzy, this atypical western underscores women's struggles in an era when social and legal codes empowered only men. Abigail Scott Duniway was a luminary in the fight for women's rights, and her serialized novels played a significant role in the enfranchisement of women in the West. Even today Edna and John serves to encourage readers to challenge injustice and sexual inequality, and to appreciate the courage and determination of the pioneer suffragists.

Edna and John is an enticing western tale that reads well for its adventure, its convincing re-creation of the way life really was in much of the West, and its humanistic appeal.

Editor Debra Shein reveals the "story behind the story" in her insightful addenda to the book, and provides an expanded panorama of the life and times of Abigail Scott Duniway.

À propos des auteurs

Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915) led the equal suffrage battle to victory in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington, was a vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and remains one of the West's most famous female historical figures. As a teen, she traveled over the Oregon Trail to become a teacher, pioneer homesteader, mother of six children, noted author, and publisher. Her serialized novels, filled with realistic detail, ironic humor, and keen political insight, offer an excellent view of the life women led in the frontier West.

Debra Shein resides near Pocatello, Idaho, where she teaches English at Idaho State University. She became interested in the life and work of Abigail Scott Duniway as a doctoral student at the University of Oregon in Eugene, and devoted herself to recovering the serialized novels published by Duniway in the 1870s through 1890s.