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Sisters of Fortune Being the True Story of How Three Motherless Sisters Saved Their Home in New England and Raised Their Younger Brother While Thei
by Heffernan, Nancy C., Stecker, Ann Page
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- ISBN-13: 9780874516517
- ISBN: 087451651X
- Publisher: University Press of New England
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In 1850 , James Wilson, a widowed congressman from Keene, New Hampshire, left his three daughters and young son to seek his fortune in the California gold rush. During his twelve year absence, the daughters wrote their father almost 350 letters filled with accounts of daily life and lively observations on local and national events. The daughters -- Mary Elizabeth, 24, Annie, 18, and Charlotte, 16, when their father left -- were conventional, upper-middle-class young women struggling to keep up appearances in a society that accorded them few rights. These letters and the story they tell constitute a valuable social and cultural document and offer readers a vivid description of mid-19th century American life.Heffernan, Nancy C. is the author of 'Sisters of Fortune Being the True Story of How Three Motherless Sisters Saved Their Home in New England and Raised Their Younger Brother While Thei' with ISBN 9780874516517 and ISBN 087451651X.
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