Woman in the Wilderness

by Bunge, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780870139789
• ISBN10: 0870139789
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

Woman in the Wilderness is a collection of letters written between 1832 and 1892 to and by an American woman, Harriet Wood Wheeler. Harriet's letters reveal her experiences with institutions that played pivotal roles in the history of American women the beginnings of a literate female work force at the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, where Harriet grew up; the first schools for women teachers, like the Ipswich Female Seminary Harriet attended; the establishment of women's associations, especially in churches; and the close and enduring ties that characterized women's relationships in the late nineteenth century. Harriet's letters also provide an intimate view of the relationships between American Indians and Euro-Americans in the Great Lakes region, where she settled with her Christian missionary husband. B/W photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index

Author Biography

Nancy Bunge is a Professor at Michigan State University, and has also taught American literature and culture as a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Free University of Brussels, the University of Ghent and the University of Siegen. She spent a year as a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Study of the Short Fiction, the editor of Conventions with Clarence Major, and the interviewer and editor of Finding the Words: Conversations with Writers Who Teach and Master Class: Lessons from Leading Writers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
The Wood/Wheeler Family	p. xvii
Preparation for the Journey	p. 3
The Reality of Mission Life	p. 21
Building a Home Alone in the Forest	p. 53
Standing with the Ojibwe against Removal and Smallpox	p. 91
Struggling against Sickness	p. 113
Harriet's Children	p. 149
Life Without a Mission	p. 181
Notes	p. 229
Selected Bibliography	p. 247
Index	p. 249
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