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Pioneer Girl
Pioneer Girl may refer to: * ''Pioneer Girl'', a 1982 novel by Margaret Pemberton, also issued as ''A Many-Splendoured Thing'' * ''Pioneer Girl'' (Nguyen novel), a 2014 novel by Bich Minh Nguyen * ''Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography'', an autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder, annotated and published in 2014 * ''Pioneer Girl, The Early Life of Frances Willard'', illustrated by Genevieve Foster * ''Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie'', a 1998 biography of American quilter Grace Snyder by Andrea Warren See also * ''Sallie Fox: The Story of a Pioneer Girl'', a 1995 children's book about California pioneer Sallie Fox Sarah (Sallie) Estelle Fox Allen (1845 – 7 February 1913) was a California pioneer and a member of the ill-fated Rose–Baley Party, the first emigrant wagon train to attempt the journey from New Mexico to California via Beale's Wagon Road. A t ... * Pioneer Girls, a youth organization {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Pemberton
Margaret Pemberton (née Hudson; born 10 April 1943) is a British writer of women's fiction since 1975. Beside her married name Margaret Pemberton, her writings have been published under her maiden name Maggie Hudson and the pseudonyms Carris Carlisle, Christina Harland, and Rebecca Dean. A former chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1989–91) she has written novels in many different genres; romantic suspense, historical sagas, contemporary sagas and crime. Having travelled extensively, her novels are set in many different parts of the world. Biography Pemberton was born Margaret Hudson on 10 April 1943 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, daughter of Kathleen (Ramsden), an artist, and George Arthur Hudson, an architect. Married with Mike Pemberton, she has five adult children and lives in Whitstable, Kent, with her husband, and two small dogs. Pemberton was the fifteenth Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association from 1989 to 1991 and also served on the Crime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer Girl (Nguyen Novel)
Pioneer Girl may refer to: * ''Pioneer Girl'', a 1982 novel by Margaret Pemberton, also issued as ''A Many-Splendoured Thing'' * ''Pioneer Girl'' (Nguyen novel), a 2014 novel by Bich Minh Nguyen * ''Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography'', an autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder, annotated and published in 2014 * ''Pioneer Girl, The Early Life of Frances Willard'', illustrated by Genevieve Foster * ''Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie'', a 1998 biography of American quilter Grace Snyder by Andrea Warren See also * ''Sallie Fox: The Story of a Pioneer Girl'', a 1995 children's book about California pioneer Sallie Fox Sarah (Sallie) Estelle Fox Allen (1845 – 7 February 1913) was a California pioneer and a member of the ill-fated Rose–Baley Party, the first emigrant wagon train to attempt the journey from New Mexico to California via Beale's Wagon Road. A t ... * Pioneer Girls, a youth organization {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bich Minh Nguyen
Bich Minh "Beth" Nguyen (born 1974) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novels ''Short Girls'', which won a 2010 American Book Award, and ''Pioneer Girl'', and a memoir, ''Stealing Buddha's Dinner''. Life Bich Minh Nguyen was born in 1974 in Saigon, which her family fled by ship the following year. After staying in refugee camps in Guam and at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas, they settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Nguyen grew up. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a Master of Fine Arts and is married to novelist Porter Shreve Porter Shreve (born Washington, DC) is an American author and professor of English and Creative Writing. He is the son of writer Susan Shreve. Life He graduated from the University of Michigan Creative Writing MFA Program in 1998, where he studie .... They have two children. In 2005, she received a PEN/Jerard Award. She taught at Purdue University and the University of San Francisco, and is currently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer Girl
Pioneer Girl may refer to: * ''Pioneer Girl'', a 1982 novel by Margaret Pemberton, also issued as ''A Many-Splendoured Thing'' * ''Pioneer Girl'' (Nguyen novel), a 2014 novel by Bich Minh Nguyen * ''Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography'', an autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder, annotated and published in 2014 * ''Pioneer Girl, The Early Life of Frances Willard'', illustrated by Genevieve Foster * ''Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie'', a 1998 biography of American quilter Grace Snyder by Andrea Warren See also * ''Sallie Fox: The Story of a Pioneer Girl'', a 1995 children's book about California pioneer Sallie Fox Sarah (Sallie) Estelle Fox Allen (1845 – 7 February 1913) was a California pioneer and a member of the ill-fated Rose–Baley Party, the first emigrant wagon train to attempt the journey from New Mexico to California via Beale's Wagon Road. A t ... * Pioneer Girls, a youth organization {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genevieve Foster
Genevieve Stump Foster (April 13, 1893 – August 30, 1979) was an American children's writer who illustrated most of her own books. She was one runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal four times, one of four writers to do so. Biography Childhood and education Foster was born in Oswego, New York, to John William Stump, a science teacher, and Jessie Starin Stump. A year after she was born her father died, and her mother moved with Genevieve, an only child, to live with her parents in Whitewater, Wisconsin, where she spent most of her childhood. Foster cited the Wisconsin home and her grandmother as early influences. When she was 13, her drawing teacher recommended she attend art school after finishing high school. She attended Rockford College from 1911 to 1912 and later graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1915. Still eager to draw, she then attended Chicago Academy of Fine Arts from 1916–1917. Professional career Foster began her career as a commercial artist, ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Snyder
Grace Bell McCance Snyder (April 23, 1882 – December 8, 1982), is an American quilter, former pioneer and centenarian, whose story is known through the books ''No Time on My Hands'' and ''Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie''. Biography Childhood Grace McCance went to Nebraska with her parents in 1885 to homestead in a sod house in Custer County, which her father acquired through the Homestead Act. She had nine siblings. She had three childhood dreams: to create the most beautiful quilts, to look down from a cloud, and to marry a cowboy. As a small child, she pieced quilt blocks while tending the family's cows. It would be years before she made a quilt from purchased fabric instead of scraps. Adulthood McCance grew up in Nebraska Sand Hills, where she first met her future husband, Bert, at 17. He offered to help her family when her father fell ill. She met Bert again at 21, where they married in 1903 and spent 53 years together before his passing. They lived on a ranc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sallie Fox
Sarah (Sallie) Estelle Fox Allen (1845 – 7 February 1913) was a California pioneer and a member of the ill-fated Rose–Baley Party, the first emigrant wagon train to attempt the journey from New Mexico to California via Beale's Wagon Road. A twelve-year-old child when she traveled on the wagon train, she was the subject of the 1995 children's book ''Sallie Fox: The Story of a Pioneer Girl''. The apron that she wore over her dress when she was seriously injured by a Mojave Indian arrow during the 1858 attack on the Rose–Baley wagons is displayed in the Vacaville Museum which also holds an annual "Sallie Fox Day". Early life Sallie Fox was born in 1845, the second daughter of Aaron Moses and Mary (''née'' Baldwin) Fox. Her father, a farmer in Southeastern Ohio, died when she was an infant. Mary subsequently moved with their two young daughters, Sallie and Sophia Frances, to Van Buren County, Iowa where her family were living. There, the "Widow Fox", as she was known, married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
