Women Write the U.S. West: Epistolary Identity in the Homesteading Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Elizabeth Corey, and Cecilia Hennel Hendricks
abstract: ABSTRACT The early twentieth century saw changing attitudes in gender roles and the advancement of the "New Woman." Despite the decline in the availability of homesteading land in the US West, homesteading still offered a means for women to achieve or enact newfound independenc...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8773 |