Letters From a Woman Homesteader (Illustrations and Annotated with Terms of Reference)

Elinore Pruitt Stewart's book, "Letters of a Woman Homesteader," is a lovely, delightful, and insightful compilation of letters she wrote to a former employer during the earliest part of the twentieth century. Elinore took whatever work she could find as a house cleaner and laundress in Denver, Colorado, after she, unfortunately, lost her husband in a railroad accident in 1909. Supporting herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine, she soon realized that working as an enslaved person at the