The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 185152 eBook Dame Shirley
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The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 185152 eBook Dame Shirley
I bought _The Shirley Letters_ after reading a SF Chronicle review of the new John Adams/Peter Sellars opera "Girls of the Golden West" based in part on this book. The reviewer panned the opera but raved about "Dame Shirley's" contemporary account of the Gold Rush.I'm loving the book too. The author's first-person voice, in letters she actually sent to her sister back home in Massachusetts in 1851-52, is self-deprecating, open-minded about her adopted world (natural beauty, primitive living conditions, rough human company), and often witty: the local gourmet chef's hair is "frizzled to the most intense degree of corkscrewity." She does occasionally lapse into the stilted syntax of her era but more often writes direct, lively sentences.
The subject matter is also irresistible: a portrait of gold-mad 1851 San Francisco at first, midway in time between the two views (1830s and 1870s) Richard Henry Dana gives us in _Two Years Before the Mast_, and then the trek into the Sierras and life in gold-mining territory at the height of the Gold Rush.
The lengthy front matter in the eBook tells us more about the author, whose real name was Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe: married to a doctor who sought work in the Sierras for health reasons and to seek fortune, a celebrity once her letters appeared in print in 1854-55, and later a schoolteacher in San Francisco and mentor to young writers, notably Bret Harte, at least two of whose best-known stories appear to have been drawn from Clappe's book.
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The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 185152 eBook Dame Shirley Reviews
It was very interesting to read these letters written in the early 1850s from a gold camp very near Reno., on the Feather River in the Sierras.
Her account of the times is just that. She does not write about her feelings. Leaves a lot to the imagination. Writing style of the time (50+ word sentences) makes for laborious reading.
Important addition to California history from a woman’s perspective.
Great read! These letters serve as some of the earliest first person reports to come out of the Gold Rush. These historically important letters are well written with great description and humor and best of all, they were written by a woman! Awesome find!
For a sense of early California history and a feel for what mining life was like as seen through a woman's eyes, nothing could be better. I think this is a must read!
This edition edited with an introduction by Marlene Smith-Baranzini has added so much more information before I even got in to the letters.
This is one of my favorite histories and "Dame Shirley's" writing is exceptional. Her early years and schooling in New England gave her a love of putting pen on paper.. How fortunate we are to have these letters written first hand by a women living in the raw gold mining world of 1851 and 1852 California.
This is a really fun read for anyone who's interested in California history, especially during the Gold Rush. "Dame Shirley" was quite the observer and storyteller. Though you should probably take her words with a grain of salt, her descriptions of camp life are a joy to read.
One note I started reading from the beginning and was like, "What? These aren't letters." The book begins with a VERY long essay *about* the letters, not with the letters themselves. I thought maybe I had mistakenly downloaded a scholarly study of the letters. Turns out you just have to skip WAY ahead before getting to Dame Shirley's correspondence with her sister.
(Also, the letters are a lot more fun and evocative if you imagine them in the voice of Alma Garrett from Deadwood. Trust me.)
I bought _The Shirley Letters_ after reading a SF Chronicle review of the new John Adams/Peter Sellars opera "Girls of the Golden West" based in part on this book. The reviewer panned the opera but raved about "Dame Shirley's" contemporary account of the Gold Rush.
I'm loving the book too. The author's first-person voice, in letters she actually sent to her sister back home in Massachusetts in 1851-52, is self-deprecating, open-minded about her adopted world (natural beauty, primitive living conditions, rough human company), and often witty the local gourmet chef's hair is "frizzled to the most intense degree of corkscrewity." She does occasionally lapse into the stilted syntax of her era but more often writes direct, lively sentences.
The subject matter is also irresistible a portrait of gold-mad 1851 San Francisco at first, midway in time between the two views (1830s and 1870s) Richard Henry Dana gives us in _Two Years Before the Mast_, and then the trek into the Sierras and life in gold-mining territory at the height of the Gold Rush.
The lengthy front matter in the eBook tells us more about the author, whose real name was Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe married to a doctor who sought work in the Sierras for health reasons and to seek fortune, a celebrity once her letters appeared in print in 1854-55, and later a schoolteacher in San Francisco and mentor to young writers, notably Bret Harte, at least two of whose best-known stories appear to have been drawn from Clappe's book.
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