Kansas Women in Literature

By Nettie Garmer Barker

As one can conclude from the title, 'Kansas Women in Literature' is a book that celebrates Kansas female authors in the late 19th and early 20th century. Some of these individuals are Ellen Palmer Allerton, Margaret Hill McCarter, and Anna Estelle Arnold.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 25, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066188351

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Nettie Garmer Barker

Kansas Women in Literature

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4064066188351

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KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATURE.

EFFIE GRAHAM.

ESTHER M. CLARK.

MARY VANCE HUMPHREY.

KATE A. APLINGTON.

EMMA UPTON VAUGHN.

JESSIE WRIGHT WHITECOMB.

MYRA WILLIAMS JARRELL.

ELLEN PALMER ALLERTON.

EMMA TANNER WOOD.

CORNELIA M. STOCKTON.

MARGARET HILL McCARTER.

BESSIE MAY BELLMAN. and JUNE BELLMAN HENTHORNE.

AMANDA T. JONES.

CHARLOTTE F. WILDER.

ANNA L. JANUARY.

HATTIE HORNER LOUTHAN.

EVA MORLEY MURPHY.

SALLIE F. TOLER.

ANNA E. ARNOLD.

INDEX.

KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATURE.

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     "We are proud of Kansas, the beautiful queen,

        And proud are we of her fields of corn;

     But a nobler pride than these I ween,

        Is our pride in her children, Kansas born!"

     —Ellen P. Allerton—

     —Or adopted. In this galaxy of bright

     women, the State has a noble pride for every

     name, be its owner Kansas born or adopted,

     is a mightier force for good than its walls of corn.

EFFIE GRAHAM.

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The last place one would expect to find romance is in arithmetic and yet—Miss Effie Graham, the head of the Department of Mathematics in the Topeka High School, has found it there and better still, in her lecture Living Arithmetic she has shown others the way to find it there. Miss Graham is one of the most talented women of the state. Ex-Gov. Hoch has called her one of the most gifted women in the state noted for its brilliant women. Her heart and life are as pure as her mind is bright.

She was born and reared in Ohio, the daughter of a family of Ohio pioneers, a descendant of a Revolutionary soldier and also, of a warrior of 1812. As a student of the Ohio Northern University and later as a post-graduate worker at the University of California, Chicago University, and Harvard Summer School, she has as she says, "graduated sometimes and has a degree but never 'finished'