How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women
by Mark Twain 
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"Boyhood is the most familiar province of Mark Twain's fiction, but a reader doesn't have to look far to find feminine territory - and it's not the perfectly neat and respectable place where you'd expect to see Becky Thatcher. This is a fictional world where rather than polishing their domestic arts and waiting for marriage proposals, girls are fighting battles, riding stallions, rescuing boys from rivers, cross-dressing, debating religion, hunting, squaring off against angry bulls, or, in show more what may be the most flagrant flouting of Victorian convention, marrying other women." "This special edition brings together the best of Twain's stories about unconventional girls and women, from Eve as she names the animals in Eden to Joan of Arc to the transvestite farce of a young man named Alice from the Wapping district of London. Whatever they're doing - bopping boys with a baseball bat in "Hellfire Hotchkiss," treating the author to a life story and a dogsled ride in "The Esquimau Maiden's Romance," or sacrificing all for the sake of a horse, as in "A Horse's Tale"--These women and girls are surprising, provocative, and irresistibly entertaining in the great Twain tradition in which they now finally take their rightful place."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Mark Twain is at once humorous and well-resourced. In this book we have a collection of his stories about women who are courageous, smart, and out-spoken. We hear from Eve as she tells about the first days of her existence trying to figure out Adam and why she is so drawn to him. We hear Twain's thoughts about one of the most iconic females of history - Joan of Arc. We also meet a young girl, Cathy, an orphan niece of a U.S. Cavalry Colonel, who becomes the princess of an outpost charming everyone from neighboring American Indians, all of the soldiers, and even Buffalo Bill's horse, Soldier Boy. One that had me laughing out loud was and interview with an "Esquimau Maiden".
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Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a show more career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.4 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English Later 19th Century 1861-1900
- LCC
- PS1302 .C66 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 19th century
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