A Daughter of the Land Author:Gene Stratton-Porter Kate Bates is another Gene Stratton-Porter unsung hero in the tradition of Elnora Comstock, of "A Girl of the Limberlost", and "Freckles and Laddie", of books of the same name. As the youngest child, and female, in a large prosperous farm family, she has been designated as her mother's helper in old age. Kate finds this unfair since all of the b... more »rothers have been given land and the older sisters sent to teacher training. With the help of a nephew and sister-in-law, she defies her parents, becomes a teacher, leaves home. Her real ambition, however, is to own and cultivate a large farm. After rejecting the easy path to her dream, she suffers through a bad marriage but ultimately acquires her land and achieves happiness.« less
1997 publication of this early 1900s classic. Gene Stratton-Porter was a strong willed woman and in this story we met a strong-willed woman in an adverse situation and grow along with this heroine.