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    Her Father's Daughter (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Gene Stratton-Porter

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    About this ebook

    Set in California in the 1920s, this novel tells the story of two orphaned sisters who must carry on in the wake of their parents’ death in a car accident. The sisters, Linda and Eileen, are polar opposites and just how this came to be is at the heart of the novel. Note: the novel contains material that is racist.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateApr 5, 2011
    ISBN9781411447035
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    Her Father's Daughter (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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    Gene Stratton-Porter

    Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924) was an American author, photographer, and naturalist. Born in Indiana, she was raised in a family of eleven children. In 1874, she moved with her parents to Wabash, Indiana, where her mother would die in 1875. When she wasn’t studying literature, music, and art at school and with tutors, Stratton-Porter developed her interest in nature by spending much of her time outdoors. In 1885, after a year-long courtship, she became engaged to druggist Charles Dorwin Porter, with whom she would have a daughter. She soon grew tired of traditional family life, however, and dedicated herself to writing by 1895. At their cabin in Indiana, she conducted lengthy studies of the natural world, focusing on birds and ecology. She published her stories, essays, and photographs in Outing, Metropolitan, and Good Housekeeping before embarking on a career as a novelist. Freckles (1904) and A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) were both immediate bestsellers, entertaining countless readers with their stories of youth, romance, and survival. Much of her works, fiction and nonfiction, are set in Indiana’s Limberlost Swamp, a vital wetland connected to the Wabash River. As the twentieth century progressed, the swamp was drained and cultivated as farmland, making Stratton-Porter’s depictions a vital resource for remembering and celebrating the region. Over the past several decades, however, thousands of acres of the wetland have been restored, marking the return of countless species to the Limberlost, which for Stratton-Porter was always “a word with which to conjure; a spot wherein to revel.”

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    • 2/5
      Not bad, though not good, as far as the story goes - and fantastic descriptions of the land and plants of Southern California. However, it's spoiled by rampant racism. A large part of the driver of the story is the "Jap" in a high school class, and how he's at the top of the class - which is a shame to all whites (cue long rants about the Yellow Peril (she literally uses those words)) and besides all they can do is imitate so the white boy should figure out some new way to come at the questions and leave the Jap in the dust...ugh. And when the white boy does top him in class, there are mysterious attempts on the white boy's life, based on other "Japs" being willing to stab the white boy in the back to help the "Jap" in the class. It's so incredibly stupid - textbook othering and disparaging. I repeat, UGH. And it's so much of a driver I don't think it could be removed from the book without major surgery. Other than that, it's an OK romance, of an odd sort - the heroine is so much her father's daughter that she's never really learned anything about being feminine. Despite (or because of) this, she has at least three men after her (politely) for most of the book. Oh yes, there's a second villain - who is totally underhanded, as well as being romantically pushy, but this is put on him rather than on all...white men (can't), men from (wherever he's from, not local), short men...whatever. It's that one individual who's a villain - so she knew how to do it, but didn't apply that technique to the boy (who isn't such a boy) in the school. Anyway, it ends up with the heroine putting herself entirely in the hands of an older man - given how much, throughout the book, she's demonstrated self-confidence and ability, this rings a wrong note. I don't know. The more I think about it the less I like it. The descriptions of the countryside, and the discussions of how to eat and otherwise use the plants there, are fantastic. But the story itself ranges from barely readable to unacceptable.
    • 2/5
      Written well before the Second World War, this novel is apt to make modern readers wince with its casual destruction of fragile ecosystems and vicious anti-Asian racism. At times Stratton-Porter's attitudes come very close to what would today be regarded as white supremacist thinking. The heroine, Linda, advocates simple and "sensible" living, but ideas of what is "sensible" have certainly changed in 80+ years' time.