Starting with her nostalgically remembered childhood on a Quaker farm on the Hudson River, Mary Hallock Foote tells the story of her training as an artist in the 1860s and of her marriage to a mining engineer whose jobs took the young couple west in the closing days of the frontier. She left the east, but not her career in book illustration. While moving from place to place with her husband, she also became a popular and widely published author, describing in her novels what it meant to be a woman in the American West during the late nineteenth century. Her story inspired the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner.

A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote

History

Foote, Mary Hallock

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Americas

Huntington Library Pr

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens

The treasures of the Huntington—literary, historic, artistic, and botanical—are captured in this beautiful volume. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 130 full-color photographs and containing a wealth of information about the collections, the book is both a pictorial treat and a fascinating resource for anyone wanting to learn more about the Huntington.

Peggy Park Bernal

Travel

Huntington Library Press

Of all the reforms that came out of the progressive era, women's suffrage has the longest history. This forty-eight-page album recovers some of the lost chapters of that history and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Photographs, posters, postcards, and letters presented in the book—most from holdings of the Huntington Library—illustrate the story of two generations of activists. Votes for Women presents not only the familiar story of the eastern suffragists but also the less-familiar stories of the western campaigns and the struggles of women in other countries. Among the items featured are a letter from Susan B. Anthony in which she describes her joy at voting (albeit illegally) in 1872; photographs of suffrage marches in New York and California; advertisements linking various products to votes for women; and suffrage leaflets in German, French, and Italian. The book describes the Huntington's extensive woman suffrage holdings, including the one-thousand-piece Susan B. Anthony Memorial Collection.

Votes for Women: A 75th Anniversary Album

DuBois, Ellen Carol

Kearns, Karen

In this gorgeous cookbook, which was named the National Winner of the 2003 Tabasco Community Cookbook Awards, Shirley Kerins shares her wealth of knowledge about growing and cooking with herbs. Featuring a full range of dishes, from appetizers, salads, side dishes, soups and breads to entrees, preserves, desserts, and beverages, the book includes an innovative Pad Thai Pesto, a tried-and-true Herbed Vichyssoise, and a luscious Apple-Rosemary Tarte Tatin. Gardeners will find A Celebration of Herbs to be an essential reference, with information on cultivating, harvesting, drying, and storing herbs and an extensive listing of plant and seed suppliers in North America. Peppered throughout the cookbook are excerpts from the Huntington Library's collection of rare herbals and botanical books from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries.

A Celebration of Herbs: Recipes from the Huntington Herb Garden

Kerins, Shirley

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This lovely book provides the first comprehensive examination of Eastman Johnson’s vivid paintings of a quintessential New England themethe making of maple sugar. This series of pictures, executed during the 1860s, is perhaps the most ambitious project in the artist’s career.Brian T. Allen discusses the ways in which Johnson’s maple sugar paintings reflect a New England on the edge of vast changes, both in the technology of farming and in the social structures of small communities. He notes how Johnson conveys the tense, shifting relationship that existed between industrial innovation and New England’s distinctive brand of community spirit, evident through maple sugar’s close association with free labor, as opposed to cane sugar’s connection with slavery.Presented here in full color, Johnson’s maple sugar paintings are both a celebration of New England and a commentary on a bygone era.

Sugaring Off: The Maple Sugar Paintings of Eastman Johnson

Arts & Photography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Allen, Brian T.

Johnson, Eastman

Religious

Clark Art Inst

Letters of Mary Baker Eddy to Augusta E. Stetson, C.S.D.,1889-1909

Literature & Fiction

Eddy, Mary Baker

Stetson, Augusta E.

Essays & Correspondence

Emma Pub Society

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