From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community

by Charlotte Hogg, Kim Donehower, Eileen E.E. Schell

Book Overview

Innovative and engaging, From the Garden Club explores how older women in a rural town use literacy to shape their lives and community. Deftly weaving elements of memoir with scholarly theory, Charlotte Hogg describes the lives of her grandmother and other women in her hometown of Paxton, Nebraska. The literacy practices of these women--writing news articles and memoirs, working at the library, and participating in extension clubs and the Garden...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803273657
• ISBN13: 9780803273658
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"