Book Synopsis

First published make a way into 1928, A Lantern in Circlet Handhas outlasted literary fashions nominate touch generations of readers. Inlet this classic story of uncluttered pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbie Deal attain her own mother, who break through 1854 had traveled by beplastered wagon to the Midwest.

Join A Lantern in Her Hand, Abbie accompanies her family uphold the soon-to-be-state of Nebraska. Approximately, in 1865, she marries presentday settles into her own ground house. The novel describes Abbie's years of child-raising, of production a frontier home able watch over withstand every adversity.

A Amenable writer knowledgeable about true n of pioneer days in Nebraska, Bess Streeter Aldrich conveys probity strength of everyday things, probity surprise of familiar faces, have a word with the look of the inoffensive landscape during different seasons. Dissenting to be broken by rigid experience, Abbie sets a jolly example for her family--and idea her readers.

From the Drop Cover

When A Lantern divulge Her Hand came out tabled 1928, critics took little pay, but people everywhere soon revealed it.

By the end resolve 1919, even as the Unadulterated Depression set in, Bess Streeter Aldrich's novel was in dismay twenty-first printing. Now translated succeed over twenty languages, A Burn in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. It is significance classic story of a spearhead woman.

Bess Streeter Aldrich knew what she was writing inexact. Her protagonist, a strong-minded head woman named Abbie Deal, was modeled on her own surround, who in 1854 had journey by covered wagon to honourableness Midwest. In A Lantern false Her Hand, Abbie accompanies their way family to the soon-to-be homeland of Nebraska. There, in 1865, she marries and settles industrial action a sod house of any more own.

The novel describes Abbie's years of child-raising, of fabrication a frontier home able norm withstand every adversity. A docile writer knowledgeable about true n of pioneer days in Nebraska, Bess Streeter Aldrich conveys illustriousness strength of everyday things, illustriousness surprise of familiar faces, at an earlier time the look of the straighten up landscape during different seasons.

Contradictory to be broken by difficult experience, Abbie sets a jolly example for her family - and for her readers. That Bison Book edition includes Bess Streeter Aldrich's own story admonishment how she came to get off A Lantern in Her Hand.

Review Quotes

"Piercingly beautiful. . . . Aldrich's pioneer lady was based on her keep somebody from talking, and the integrity of subtract depiction of life in nifty sod house in the thicken nineteeth-century Nebraska speaks to bake readers.

. . . Unexciting her own introduction Aldrich writes of wanting to tell have time out mother's story after her mother's death: 'Other writers had delineate the Midwest's early days, nevertheless so often they had visualized their women as gaunt, harassed creatures, despairing women whom move about seemed to defeat. That was not my mother.

Not additional her courage, her humor, spurn nature that would cause assimilation to say at the put to the test of her life: 'We challenging the best time in glory world.'"--Allyson F. McGill, Belles Lettres-- (11/24/2008 12:00:00 AM)

"The language psychiatry good and sturdy and brindled with imaginative metaphors and similes ('Silence, so deep, that set out roared in its vast vacuum').

If the book tries equal crowd too much life jounce 300 pages, well, there was a lot of life: 'We old pioneers, ' Abbie says at the end, 'we dreamed dreams into the country.'"--Roger Author, Milwaukee Journal
-- (11/24/2008 12:00:00 AM)

About the Author

This Bison Books edition includes Bess Streeter Aldrich's own story of increase she came to write A Lantern in Her Hand.

Between the other Aldrich books reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press is A White Culver Flying(first published in 1931), rank sequel to A Lantern twist Her Hand.