Compiled and edited by Barbara Love and Frances Love Froidenvaux. Forwarded by John McPhee. Introduction by Charles E Rankin.

When John McPhee discovered these journals he found that Ethel Waxham wrote "with such wit, insight, grace, irony, compassion, sarcasm, stylistic elegance, and emraceing humor that I could not resist her." Waxham was a Wellesley graduate who decided in 1905 to accept a teaching job at a one-room school in Wyoming. Viewers of the PBS series "The West," in which this material was used, will enjoy this intimate look at her five-year courtship by John Love and her attemprs, as well as those of her college-educated friends, to pursue higher education and a career.

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