A Daughter of the Land [MP3 CD] [Jan 01, 2017] Gene STRATTON-PORTER (1863 - 1924)

IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. Self-reliant Kate Bates does not like the idea that, as the youngest of a big family, she is required to remain at home and assist her parents while her brothers and sisters are unrestricted to fulfill their dreams. When she disobeys her family and absconds from home, she soon learns that the way to freedom is overlaid with so many adversities. </br></br>A Daughter of the Land includes these chapters: The Wings of Morning, An Embryo Mind Reader, Peregrinations, A Question of Contracts, The Prodigal Daughter, Kate's Private Pupil, Helping Nancy Ellen and Robert to Establish a Home, The History of a Leghorn Hat, A Sunbonnet Girl, John Jardine's Courtship, A Business Proposition, Two Letters, The Bride, Starting Married Life, A New Idea, The Work of the Sun, The Banner Hand, Kate Takes the Bit in Her Teeth, As a Man Soweth, For a Good Girl, Life's Boomerang, Somewhat of Polly, Kate's Heavenly Time, Polly Tries Her Wings, One More for Kate, The Winged Victory, Blue Ribbon Corn, The Eleventh Hour. </br></br>Gene Stratton-Porter whose real name was Geneva Grace Stratton, was an American writer, one of the first naturalists, and nature photographer. She used her profession and money as a renowned writer to promote the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other marshlands in the state of Indiana. She authored many famous books and conventional columns in national magazines, including McCall's. Her writings were interpreted into many dialects, as well as Braille, and Gene have had an approximate of 50 million readers all throughout the world. Her story, A Girl of the Limberlost, was made four times into a movie adaptation, and the life story of Gene Stratton-Porter herself was created as a one-woman act, A Song of the Wilderness by dramatist and actor Larry Gard for his wife, actress Marcia Quick.