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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education Of Two Society Girls In The West (2011)

by Dorothy Wickenden(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1439176582 (ISBN13: 9781439176580)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Scribner

review 1: This is the story of two women of privilege who live in Auburn, NY. They graduate from college, spend a year traveling in Europe, and then decide to work in rural Colorado as teachers for a year.Pieced together from the letters the women wrote to their families while they were in Colorado, we see insights into their daily lives and their attitudes about what they were doing.The author also adds in lost of commentary about the political climate, both of the area and the world.
review 2: A captivating full-length book derived from a widely read and much beloved New Yorker piece about Wickenden's grandmother and her grandmother's best friend who left their affluent East Coast lives to "rough it" as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.This was an interesting ... morebook but the writing left something to be desired. She spent about the first 2/3 of the book going into the history of things that weren't necessary. There were also way too many direct quotes which really made the writing stilted. less

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