LearningA Closer Look
In a letter written from Faribault on April 17, 1911, Mary Whipple reported on her activities: “For a woman who will be 82 on her next birthday, I am hale and well. I cannot naturally be very active and have much enforced leisure. I potter around as much as I can and read a great deal. As a refreshing exercise I have taken to working algebra and particularly enjoy radical quantities. I read one or two Waverlys [novels] every year and this year have read some of Dickens. We have Harper’s [magazine], Human Life, and the Youth’s Companion and the Springfield Republican… I wonder whether you are reading “The Iron Woman” in Harper’s Monthly?” To read the serialized novel “The Iron Woman” by turn-of-the-century novelist and social reformer Margaret Deland, visit Project Gutenberg. |
