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A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote Author:Mary Hallock Foote, Rodman W. Paul (Editor) Starting with her nostalgically remembered childhood on a Quaker farm on the Hudson River, Mary Hallock Foote tells the story of her training as an artist in the 1860s and of her marriage to a mining engineer whose jobs took the young couple west in the closing days of the frontier. — She left the east, but not her career in book illustration. Wh... more »ile moving from place to place with her husband, she also became a popular and widely published author, describing in her novels what it meant to be a woman in the American West during the late nineteenth century. Her story inspired the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner.« less