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A Daughter of the Land
Gene Stratton-Porter
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Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while her brothers and sisters are free to pursue their desires. When she defies her family and leaves home, she finds that the path to independence is paved with hardships.
Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while her brothers and sisters are free to pursue their desires. When she defies her family and leaves home, she finds that the path to independence is paved with hardships.
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She remembered telling Nancy Ellen before going away to Normal that she wished her father would drive her from home. Now that was accomplished. She was away from home, in a place where there was not one familiar face, object, or plan of life, but she did not wish for it at all. She devoutly wished that she were back at home even if she were preparing supper, in order that Nancy Ellen might hem towels. She wondered what they were saying: her mind was crystal clear as to what they were doing. She wondered if Nancy Ellen would send Adam, 3d, with a par. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
The woman who I read aloud to has a bookshelf of all her old - and I mean OLD! - books that she saved from her childhood. I went up there this morning and pulled a few novels off the shelf, and she chose this one. SO far, the writing is decent and I'm on a history trip!
Update 3/3/09 - I am into this
The first Gene Stratton-Porter book I've read. It was moderately engaging at times, but I never got used to the way she relates the story, effectively TELLING the reader how a person thinks and what their character is like, instead of SHOWING them. Nor did I really find any of the main characters to
The "Bates Way" didn't seem terribly admirable to me and I got sick and tired of Kate thinking any halfway intelligent or sensible action was somehow directly attributed to her mean miserly father's genes. Why did Kate name her son after a father who never showed her any affection or even fairness?
Not my favorite GSP book - I enjoyed the beginning, and was glad at the end, but everything in between was pretty hard work... I think she was trying for a story about a family full of "imperfect" people, which is fine - but a lot of the characters seem to make decisions that don't really make sense
A touching, moving, powerful story by Gene Stratton-Porter! This book follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life she's been denied. This book is unlike Mrs. Porter's A Girl of the Limberlost - which is a favorite of mine as wel
If you have not read GSP before, skip this for now and read Girl of the Limberlost or Keeper of the Bees first, but come back to it. You have to know her and her love of transformation and redemption to appreciate this one, I believe. Kate Bates makes some ridiculous and seemingly out of character d
This is a difficult book to review, because it was just … strange, in many ways. I’d chalk that up to its being written a hundred years ago, but I didn’t get the same strange vibe with Freckles and Girl of the Limberlost, which I'd read to my daughters, or with the The Song of the Cardinal.
Kate Bate
Another excellent book by Gene Stratton Porter. You can find my full review here.
Reread 5/16/2019:
Kate is conceited, but she reminds me a little of myself. I'm a lot less snobby (sorry, but I am), but we both are honest, straightforward, already blunt, and (view spoiler)[will both at some point or another in our l (hide spoiler)]