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Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, July 24, 1876 - June 11, 1916) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually,... Read Full Overview

The Wheat Princess, by Jean Webster, depicts life in Italy of the 1800's and early 1900's, where pauperism and affluence resided side by side. During a semester spent in Europe, with Italy as her base, Webster did some research for her thesis titled "Pauperism in... Read Full Overview

The Wheat Princess, by Jane Webster, is a worthy classic first published in 1905. It depicts life in Italy of the 1800's and early 1900's, where pauperism and affluence resided side by side. During a semester spent in Europe, with Italy as her base, Jane Webster did some research... Read Full Overview

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The Wheat Princess is a novel written by Jean Webster and published in 1916. The story is set in the early 1900s in rural America and follows the life of a young girl named Molly. Molly is the daughter of a wealthy wheat farmer and is known as the Wheat Princess due to her family's... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
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"The Wheat Princess" is a 1905 novel by American writer Jean Webster. Inspired by the famous case of the Chicago "Wheat King" during the late 1890s, this volume looks at the potential effects of a similar wheat monopoly in Italy, a country which relies heavily on imported wheat... Read Full Overview

IT was late and the studio was already well filled when two new-comers were ushered into the room-one a woman still almost young, and still (in a kindly light) beautiful; the other a girl emphatically young, her youth riding triumphant over other qualities which in a few years... Read Full Overview

IT was late and the studio was already well filled when two new-comers were ushered into the room-one a woman still almost young, and still (in a kindly light) beautiful; the other a girl emphatically young, her youth riding triumphant over other qualities which in a few years... Read Full Overview

IT was late and the studio was already well filled when two new-comers were ushered into the room-one a woman still almost young, and still (in a kindly light) beautiful; the other a girl emphatically young, her youth riding triumphant over other qualities which in a few years... Read Full Overview