Съдържание:
  • 1.
  • A tradition of pioneers
  • 2.
  • Private enterprise : the emigrant autobiographies of Kitturah Belknap and Susanna Moodie
  • 3.
  • Recipes for success : Catharine Parr Traill's Empire of woman
  • 4.
  • Domesticity and dirt : Eliza Farnham's Life in prairie land and Christiana Tillson's Reminiscences of early life in Illinois
  • 5. "A
  • space in which to be imaginative" : Caroline Kirkland's A new home, who'll follow
  • 6.
  • Plotting the golden West : autobiographies of the mining West
  • 7.
  • "To recover those once lost and now forgotten" : Anne Langton's journal and memoir
  • Conclusion : writing the pioneer woman.