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  • Her writing became a means to support her family and get all of her children through college.
  • Bess Streeter Aldrich was buried in Elmwood, Nebraska, the small town in which she had lived and done the bulk of her writing.
  • Bess Genevra Streeter Aldrich was an American author whose prolific output of novels and short stories evoked the American Plains and the.

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    A LANTERN IN HER HAND

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    Review of Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real By Carol Miles Petersen

    Abstract

    Bess Streeter Aldrich, Nebraska author (), believed that if people want to do something badly enough, they will find the time to do it. Carol Miles Petersen, her biographer, tells us that Aldrich wanted so much to write that care of a husband, four children, and a home failed to deter her. The early death of Aldrich's husband added an economic impetus to her initial drive. She published a dozen books and numerous short stories and articles in meeting her artistic and family responsibilities. Moreover, during depression years, she aided her community substantially by offering quiet financial help to the Elmwood bank she partially owned and managed.

    Aldrich displayed the kind of relentless effort, cheerfulness, and faith in the initial goodness of life that permeates her protagonists, all early Midwesterners. Abbie Deal is such a heroine in Aldrich's best known work, A Lantern in Her Hand,

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    Miss Bishop

    June 18,
    Ella Bishop is one of the members of the first graduating class of "Midwestern University" (presumably in Nebraska, the author's home turf), one tiny building plopped hopefully in something in the middle of the prairie grass on the outskirts of a little town. A cheerful and competent student, Ella is offered a position teaching grammar at the college when she graduates, which she accepts, assuming she'll leave it in a year or two to be married. Then follows 50 years of life happening while she makes other plans. Bess Streeter Aldrich was respected enough in the midth century to warrant an entry in my favorite reference book, the Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, a bit to my surprise, as while I generally enjoyed the book, I found certain aspects of the plot a little maudlin, and the writing undistinguished. I did enjoy following the story paralleling Miss Bishop's career, that of the immense growth and flourishing of the college as she steadily ge