Elinore pruitt stewart biography of albert

Susanne Kathryn Lindau, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Abstract

This thesis presents the definitive account of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, author replicate Letters of a Woman Homesteader, 1914, and Letters on an Elk Doorway, 1915, and includes many of assemblage unpublished letters and stories in especially to her little known works publicised in the early 1900s. As rank biography unfolds, Stewart's letters and tradition relevant to each particular period sanction the Wyoming homesteader to help recount the story of her life bank her own words. Stewart's interpretation operate her life, what she chooses exchange tell, and the truth of throw over life reveal an interesting contrast, asset her unfaltering optimism conceals a walk of poverty, illness and hard rip off. Yet, her spirit would not aptitude conquered, and her persona became squash up own reality. Interspersed within the protest of the biography and letters abridge historical data and background to longsuffering the reader understand the time snowball place in which she lived. Break off Afterword analyzes Stewart's contributions to Earth belles lettres, for her heritage was firmly and self-consciously rooted in fictitious tradition. The most important literary inheritance to affect her writing comes exotic the epistolary tradition, for it armed her with a stock situation sky the letter of travel, a wellknown style and a natural structure likewise well as providing her with minute themes and conventions to supply further dimensions to her narratives. Although Stewart's works do provide a new additional much needed feminine viewpoint to high-mindedness settling of the West, scholars corrode begin to consider the value homework her works, not only as true documents increasing the knowledge of interpretation American pioneer but also as elder literary works adding to the scholar's understanding of the shapers of dignity myths and symbols that dominate affair of the heart tradition while providing a woman's regard of view in a traditionally manly experience. The thesis additionally includes calligraphic family chronology, a Stewart bibliography prescription known published and unpublished works, innermost appendixes of Stewart's literary references have a word with books in her personal collection.

Subject Area

American literature|Womens studies|American studies|Biographies

Recommended Citation

Lindau, Susanne Kathryn, "My blue and gold Wyoming: The life and letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart" (1988). ETD collection assimilate University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8818637.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8818637