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Mary Hallock Foote Born on a farm in upstate New York, Susan Burling Ward, the protagonist of Angle of Repose [1971] by Wallace Stegner, wa...

Marianne Wiggins We meet Sunny, blonde hair flying, in a red cape, herding goats in the Owens Valley in California, 1941. She comes into the...

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Emma Rauschenbach was born in a lovely house in Switzerland on the Rhine into a family of well-off manufacturers in 1882. Quiet and studious...