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A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST IBD

GENE STRATTON PORTER
INDOEUROPEANPUBLISHING.COM
03 / 2023
9798889421702
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A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel by American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was published in August 1909. It is considered a classic of Indiana literature. It is the sequel to her earlier novel Freckles.áThe story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp. Even at the time, this impressive wetland region was being reduced by heavy logging, natural oil extraction and drainage for agriculture. (The swamp and forestland eventually ceased to exist, though projects since the 1990s have begun to restore a small part of it.)áPatricia Raub (Senior Lecturer of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston) notes that Stratton-Porter was 'one of the most popular woman novelists of the era, who was known for her nature books and her editorials on McCallâÇÖs âÇÖGene Stratton-Porter PageâÇÖ as well as for her novels.' Raub writes, 'At the time of her death in 1924, more than ten million copies of her books had been sold - and four more books were published after her death.'áááááThe novel is set in northeastern Indiana. Most of the action takes place either in or around the Limberlost, or in the nearby, fictional town of Onabasha.áThe novelâÇÖs main character, Elnora Comstock, is an impoverished young woman who lives with her widowed mother, Katharine Comstock, on the edge of the Limberlost. Elnora faces cold neglect by her mother, a woman who feels ruined by the death of her husband, Robert Comstock, who drowned in quicksand in the swamp. Katharine blames Elnora for his death, because her husband died while she gave birth to their daughter and could not come to his rescue.áThe Comstocks make money by selling eggs and other farm products, but Mrs. Comstock refuses to cut down a single tree in the forest, or to delve for oil, as the neighbors around them are doing, even though the added income would make their lives easier. (Wikipedia.org)

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