About the book
Dear Woman of My Dreams is Kathryn's 1923 diary, covering her nineteenth year. This coming-of-age story is told in her own words as she goes about her daily life at college with her friends and with her mother and grandmother at home. She writes to the woman that she sees as herself in later years, and the book closes with a brief chapter based on letters and the diary Kathryn wrote when she was one hundred years old. All this has been creatively edited by her daughter to include enough material for the reader to follow both the cross-country train trip that Kathryn and her grandmother took in the summer of 1923 and the various details of time and place that one would not necessarily find in a diary. Illustrations and references link four generations of strong women, and the work is based on an extensive family archive. This is the first in a series of stories based on the women of this family.
Editions of Dear Woman of My Dreams
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781514489055
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781514489062
- EBook
- ISBN 9781514489079
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Dear Woman of My Dreams is Kathryn's 1923 diary, covering her nineteenth year. This coming-of-age story is told in her own words as she goes about her daily life at college with her friends and with her mother and grandmother at home. She writes to the woman that she sees as herself in later years, and the book closes with a brief chapter based on letters and the diary Kathryn wrote when she was one hundred years old. All this has been creatively edited by her daughter to include enough material for the reader to follow both the cross-country train trip that Kathryn and her grandmother took in the summer of 1923 and the various details of time and place that one would not necessarily find in a diary. Illustrations and references link four generations of strong women, and the work is based on an extensive family archive. This is the first in a series of stories based on the women of this family.
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What is Dear Woman of My Dreams about?
Dear Woman of My Dreams is Kathryn's 1923 diary, covering her nineteenth year. This coming-of-age story is told in her own words as she goes about her daily life at college with her friends and with her mother and grandmother at home. She writes to the woman that she sees as herself in later years, and the book closes with a brief chapter based on letters and the diary Kathryn wrote when she was one hundred years old. All this has been creatively edited by her daughter to include enough material for the reader to follow both the cross-country train trip that Kathryn and her grandmother took in the summer of 1923 and the various details of time and place that one would not necessarily find in a diary. Illustrations and references link four generations of strong women, and the work is based on an extensive family archive. This is the first in a series of stories based on the women of this family.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Dear Woman of My Dreams?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Biography and non-fiction prose > Memoirs
Where can I read a sample of Dear Woman of My Dreams?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781514489055
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Dear Woman of My Dreams?
Lois Kathryn Herr
Who is the Publisher of the book Dear Woman of My Dreams?
Xlibris
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Dear Woman of My Dreams is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781514489055) and paperback(ISBN 9781514489062) and ebook(ISBN 9781514489079)