A New Home-Who'll Follow? Or, Glimpses of Western Life. By Mrs. Mary Clavers. An Actual Settler.
Clavers, Mrs. Mary (Caroline Matilda Stansbury Kirkland)
New York: C.S. Francis, 1839. F vi + 317 pages + 2 pages publisher's announcements at back; Howes K-184; Mrs. Mary Clavers (Caroline Matilda Stansbury Kirkland) 1801-1864 American authoress. After the death of her father, who was a bookseller and publisher, the family removed to Geneva, N.Y. , where she m. Prof. Wm. Kirkland of Ham. College, who subsequently established a sem. in Goshen on Seneca Lake. He was the author of a series of "Letters from Abroad," writtenafter a residence in Europe, and of numerous contributions to the periodical press. In 1835 they emigrated to Michigan, and lived there until 1843 whence they returned to New York City. She published this volume under the name of Mary Clavers and other works concerning education, memoirs and more ...'She was a very successfuly teacher, and charming conversationalist" (DAB); with interesting descriptions of the author's experiences of the squalor and difficulty of settler life, thinly veiled in fiction and without being sparing in her opinions; bound in original publisher's straight-ribbed decoratively blindstamped dark brown cloth, gilt spine titles; some edge, tips wear to binding; cloth covering splitting at spine, front board loose, binding secure; some foxing; good condition overall and good early American West travel, living, from a woman's viewpoint of pioneer history. Good H (Item ID: 16562)
$750.00
