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Author Rendleman, Edith Bradley, 1898-

Title All anybody ever wanted of me was to work : the memoirs of Edith Bradley Rendleman / edited by Jane Adams
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Shawnee books
Summary "Edith Bradley Rendleman's story of her life in southern Illinois is remarkable in many ways. Recalling the first half of the twentieth century in great detail, she vividly cites vignettes from her childhood as her family moved from farm to farm until settling in 1909 in the Mississippi bottoms west of Wolf Lake. She recounts the lives and times of her family and neighbors during an era gone forever." "Remarkable for the vivid details that evoke the past, Rendleman's account is rare in another respect: memoirs of the time - usually written by people from elite or urban families - often reek of nostalgia. But Rendleman's memoir differs from the norm. Born poor in rural southern Illinois, she tells an unvarnished tale of what it was really like growing up on a tenant farm early this century."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202) and index
Notes English
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Subject Rendleman, Edith Bradley, 1898- -- Childhood and youth
SUBJECT Rendleman, Edith Bradley, 1898- fast
Subject Tenant farmers -- Illinois -- Social conditions
Women -- Illinois -- Biography
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Childhood and youth of a person
Manners and customs
Rural conditions
Tenant farmers -- Social conditions
Women
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States Local History.
SUBJECT Illinois -- Social life and customs
Illinois -- Rural conditions
Subject Illinois
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Adams, Jane (Jane H.)
LC no. 94037252
ISBN 0585029652
9780585029658