Daughter Of Earth - First Edition Thus Issued

by Agnes Smedley

Paperback, 1973

Status

Available

Call number

PS3537.M16 D3

Publication

A Feminist Press Publication (1973), Paperback

Description

"A Feminist Press classic, reissued with a new introduction by Paola Mendoza, this semiautobiographical account of an early twentieth-century activist recounts growing up in rural poverty in farming settlements and mining towns; discovering the double standards of race and sex among East Coast intellectuals; facing false espionage charges; and maintaining independence through two difficult marriages. Daughter of Earth was one of the first works to explore sexism within the socialist movement"--

User reviews

LibraryThing member jessicariddoch
you can tell that this is a biographical novel as some of the passion is missing where in a literay novel it would be pulled out.
However there is enough in this to make me even more interested in Agnes.
I do wonder if we are related

Language

Original publication date

1929

Local notes

OCLC = 941
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