Title A home in the West, or, Emigration and its consequences / M. Emilia Rockwell ; edited by Sharon E. Wood.

Publication Info.	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Description	1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations.
Series	A bur oak book
	Bur oak book.
Note	Originally published: Dubuque, Iowa : Dubuque Express and Herald, 1858.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page 27).
Note	Print version record.
Summary	"A Home in the West, first printed in Dubuque in 1858, is unique among emigration literature because it was directed at women, using the form of a sentimental domestic novel loaded with lots of tender words to encourage women to settle in the West."--Jacket.
Subject	Women immigrants -- Fiction.
	Women pioneers -- Fiction.
	Married women -- Fiction.
	Iowa -- Fiction.
	Domestic fiction.
	Western stories.
	FICTION -- Westerns.
	Married women. (OCoLC)fst01010701
	Women immigrants. (OCoLC)fst01177764
	Women pioneers. (OCoLC)fst01178307
	Iowa. (OCoLC)fst01205835
Genre/Form	Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Western stories.
	Domestic fiction.
Added Author	Wood, Sharon E.
Added Title	Home in the West
	Emigration and its consequences
Other Form:	Print version: Rockwell, M. Emilia (Mary Emilia), b. 1835 or 6. Home in the West, or, Emigration and its consequences. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2005 0877459436 9780877459439 (DLC) 2004062114 (OCoLC)57039690
ISBN	9781587295973 (electronic bk.)
	1587295970 (electronic bk.)

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