An Iowa Schoolma'am: Letters of Elizabeth "Bess" Corey, 1904-1908

by Elizabeth Corey

Readers everywhere fell for Elizabeth Corey, the irrepressible, independent, and fearless Bachelor Bess, whose letters home to Iowa gave us a firsthand account of her adventures on a South Dakota homestead from 1909 to 1919. Now, through the letters she wrote home between 1904 and 1908, readers can make the acquaintance of a younger Bess facing the realities of life in an Iowa country school system with energy, enthusiasm, and ambition. Sixteen-year-old...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587299607
• ISBN13: 9781587299605
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 9.1"