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The history of ordinary life & remarkable women

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Why makes a story history?

In Dorothy Wickenden’s new book Nothing Daunted, she tells the real-life adventure story of her grandmother, Dorothy Woodruff, who left the safe confines of New York in 1916 to teach school in the wilds of the American West. 

As Slate says, “What is alternative about this history is its lens, which is trained on a strain of feminine resilience that doesn’t often come into focus in accounts of the frontier. Mrs. Harrison was but one of a seemingly unending parade of remarkable women.”

• 8 July 2011
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