Author : Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Publisher : Heyday
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781890771003
A pioneer woman describes life near a northern California mining camp during the fabled "gold rush."
Author : Dame Shirley
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 1922
Category : California
ISBN :
Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The couple first lived in mining camps where Dr. Clappe practiced medicine and then moved to San Francisco, where Mrs. Clappe taught in the public schools for more than twenty years. The Shirley letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of "Dame Shirley" in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar. She focuses on the experiences of women and children, the perils of miners' work, crime and punishment, and relations with native Hispanic residents and Native Americans. Bret Harte is said to have based two of his stories on the "Shirley" letters.
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 1970
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 1949
Category : California
ISBN :
Twenty-three letters written by the author to her sister, Mary Jane, in Massachusetts, under the pseud., Dame Shirley.
Author : Dame Shirley
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 1922
Category : California
ISBN :
Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The couple first lived in mining camps where Dr. Clappe practiced medicine and then moved to San Francisco, where Mrs. Clappe taught in the public schools for more than twenty years. The Shirley letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of "Dame Shirley" in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar. She focuses on the experiences of women and children, the perils of miners' work, crime and punishment, and relations with native Hispanic residents and Native Americans. Bret Harte is said to have based two of his stories on the "Shirley" letters.
Author : JoAnn Levy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806189959
"The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush. Levy’s book debunks that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history."-Choice "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date"ˆ–San Francisco Chronicle
Author : Louise Clappe
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1647981352
The Shirley Letters were written between September 1851 and November 1852, by Louise Clappe under the pen name Dame Shirley. These letters, addressed to her sister Molly back east, describe how California mining life was like during the Gold Rush.
Author : Shirley
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2018-10-19
Category :
ISBN : 9780343812881
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Author : Dame Shirley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Travel
ISBN :
The Shirley Letters, written in the pioneer days of 1851 and 1852, were hailed throughout the country as the first-born of California literature. Mrs. Clappe, their author, was the one woman who depicted that era of romantic life, dipping her pen into a rich personal experience, and writing with a clarity and beauty born of an alert comprehensive mind and a rare sense of refinement and character. The Letters had been written to a loved sister in the East. The Shirley Letters, once published, brought the new West to the wondering East, and showed to those who had not made the venture, the courage, the fervor, the beauty, the great-heartedness, that made up life in the new El Dorado. Shirley's sympathetic Interpretation of their tumultuous experience cheered the Argonauts by throwing before their eyes the drama in which they were unconsciously the swash-buckling, the tragic, or the romantic actors, and helped to crystallize the growing love for the new land, which love turned fortune and adventure seekers into home-makers and empire-builders.
Author : Dame Shirley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 1922
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