Lady's choice
Subtitle: Ethel Waxham's journals & letters, 1905-1910
By: compiled & edited by Barbara Love & Frances Love Froidevaux ; foreword by John McPhee ; introduction by Charles E. Rankin.
Contributors: Love, John, b. 1870.; Love, Barbara, 1949-; Froidevaux, Frances Love, 1942-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Waxham, Ethel, b. 1882 -- Correspondence; Teachers -- Wyoming -- Correspondence; Teachers -- Colorado -- Correspondence; Teachers -- Wisconsin -- Correspondence
Description: Ethel Waxham's letters and journals provide a rich portrait of the American West of the early 1900s and of the limitations facing educated women of that period. The first-person sources create a historical context for issues still pertinent to women facing problems of employment, education, and social change. John McPhee excerpted portions of Waxham's journals in Rising From the Plains. Lady's Choice presents the complete journal and Waxham's extensive correspondence, revealing her decision in 1905 to accept a teaching job at a one-room school in Wyoming, her five-year courtship by John Love, and her attempts, as well as those of her college-educated friends, to pursue higher education and a career.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-380) and index.
Correspondence includes letters between Ethel Waxham and John Love.