Edna and John: A Romance of Idaho Flat Contributor(s): Duniway, Abigail Scott (Author), Shein, Debra (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0874221889 ISBN-13: 9780874221886 Publisher: Washington State University Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2000 Annotation: Oregon's Abigail Scott Duniway was a Northwest luminary in the fight for women's rights in the late nineteenth century. Edna and John is one of her serially published novels that helped pave the way for the enfranchisement of women in the West. Presented in book form for the first time, this story of a couple who move to Idaho during the 1860s gold mining frenzy underscores women's struggles in an era when social and legal codes mainly empowered men. |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Romance - Historical - Victorian |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 99053703 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.12" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 244 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Mountains - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Idaho - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family - Topical - Country/Cowboy |