California "where Sets the Sun", 1876-1904
Author : Eliza A. Otis
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 1905
Category : American literature
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Author : Eliza A. Otis
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 1905
Category : American literature
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Author : Eliza A. Otis
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 1905
Category : American literature
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Writings in poetry and prose.
Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Dawson's Book Shop
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Page : 86 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
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Author : Eliza A. Otis
Publisher : Huntington Library Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Architects of Our Fortunes is the first publication of the Civil War letters and journals of Eliza A. W. Otis and her husband, Harrison Gray Otis, who went on to become the publishers of the Los Angeles Times. These intimate letters and journal entries reveal an earlier and simpler chapter in their lives, when he was a printer who joined the Union army and she was a poet and teacher who traveled through the Upper South to stay close to her soldier husband. Their writings reflect their love for each other, the fears aroused by the war, and the shaping of their ambitions and moral purpose by the forces of history in a tumultuous time. The book is divided into three parts. The first documents are letters written from Harrison to Eliza just after their marriage in 1859. Eliza's journal, which she kept from 1860 to 1863, forms the second, much longer, section. The journal draws a highly readable portrait of this young newlywed, whose thoughts and experiences tell us much about the women of her era. Her candid comments on the people around her are especially revealing of her own character and of Victorian sensibility. The final section, a brief Civil War diary written by Harrison in the field from 1862 to 1863, provides a common soldier's view of that great struggle. The three sets of documents shed light not only on the Otis family but also on the experience of ordinary Americans during the Civil War. They also suggest the widespread impact of the war on the development of the West. Harrison and Eliza Otis were but two of the thousands of soldiers and their families who resettled in California after the war to begin a new life. The experience and ideals expressed in the documents in this book were widely shared. The emergence of the Otises as major public leaders in Southern California and the success of the Los Angeles Times grew out of their struggle during the Civil War years and the values they forged as a consequence of that conflict.
Author : Historical Society of Southern California
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 1947
Category : California, Southern
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Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 1910-10
Category : Art
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Page : 694 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 1946
Category : California, Southern
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