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Nothing Daunted
The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
By Wickenden, Dorothy
- ISBN
- 978-1-43917-658-0
- Publisher
- Scribner
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Reviewed on July 1, 2011
Wickenden (executive editor, The New Yorker) shares the story of her grandmother Dorothy Woodruff, who, along with close personal friend Rosamond Underwood, spent nine months teaching at a remote settlement school in northwestern Colorado in the early 20th century. This highly personalized and meticulously researched account is more than a simple family history: it tells a great backstory about American development in those years, an "alternative western," in ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
