Rose Of Dutcher's Coolly

Widely regarded as the best of Hamlin Garlands novels Rose of DutchersCoolly tells the story of a country girl of precocious ability who is raisedby her widower... » 

Widely regarded as the best of Hamlin Garlands novels Rose of DutchersCoolly tells the story of a country girl of precocious ability who is raisedby her widower father on a small Wisconsin farm. She wants to be a poet andeventually attends the university where her talent is encouraged. A carefullycrafted defense of the New Woman the first generation of women to achieveeconomic and social independence Rose of Dutchers Coolly deals with issuesthat are still with usthe nature of femininity the problem of reconcilingcareer and family the meaning of love and the need for equal opportunity.Above all it records a nineteenthcentury mans vision of a world that stilleludes us one in which men and women are equal partners. This edition reprintsthe text of the 1895 printing and includes an introduction that places thenovel in the historical context of the early feminist movement. «