By Joyce Litz
This precise tale of a Victorian-era younger lady who follows her husband to a small city with the unbelievable identify of Gilt side, Montana, will remind readers of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, the vintage novel of a woman's lifestyles within the Mountain West. As a tender lady, Lillian Weston, the author's grandmother, aspired to be a live performance pianist. besides the fact that, as a tender lady in turn-of-the-century manhattan, she turned a newspaper columnist. Her marriage to Frank Hazen took her west in 1899, finishing her occupation as a newspaperwoman. She grew to become her writing abilities to journals, diaries, tales, and poems, which traced her family's existence on a frontier that was once not unspoiled.
The Hazens continued brutal winters and dry summers and endeavored to elevate livestock and chickens via trial and blunder. Lillian used to be an assiduous diarist who integrated information of her turbulent marriage challenged by means of Frank's undesirable company offers. the main points of contraception and baby rearing, playing and prostitution, schooling and future health care are all a part of this tale, supplying glimpses into way of life that regularly move unreported within the better tale of western expansion.
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She said she knew her readers didn’t want to read such a gloomy letter about oppressed people, but she told them she had to write about it, because she didn’t have the influence to change things. ” She wrote of businessmen in New York City’s garment district exploiting their workers, mostly women, who were forced to work in decrepit buildings with many a life destroyed by fire like the one described in The New York Herald on August , . The story was called “In a Death Trap” and described how seventeen men, women, and children lost their lives “horribly” in a burning factory on the Bowery.
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