INDEX TO HAMLIN GARLAND'S
A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDER
Compiled & Edited by Lonnie E. Underhill, c 2015
This index is based on the Gosset & Dunlap 1921 edition, reissued 1926, of Hamlin Garland's A Daughter of the Middle Border. A Daughter of the Middle Border is a continuation of Garland's life story chronicle that had concluded with A Son of the Middle Border.
A Son of the Middle Border had chronicled Garland's life up to the stage where he moved into the Midwest from the East Coast in approximately 1893. A Daughter of the Middle Border presented a more personal, less epic, side to his life and covers a period roughly from 1893 until a few years after his father's death in 1914. By his own statement, he planned A Daughter of the Middle Border as a study of individuals and their relationships rather than one of settlements and migrations. As such, A Daughter of the Middle Border was a continuation and not a repetition of A Son of the Middle Border. Garland planned to answer many of the lingering questions his readers had expressed regarding his intention to gain a new daughter for his aging mother, accounting for his childhood friends, chronicling his father's reluctance to return to a new homestead at West Salem, Wisconsin, and many other queries, both literary and personal of his life.
In 1922, A Daughter of the Middle Border was selected as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Lonnie E. Underhill
Gilbert, Arizona
lonnieunderhill@gmail.com
A Son of the Middle Border had chronicled Garland's life up to the stage where he moved into the Midwest from the East Coast in approximately 1893. A Daughter of the Middle Border presented a more personal, less epic, side to his life and covers a period roughly from 1893 until a few years after his father's death in 1914. By his own statement, he planned A Daughter of the Middle Border as a study of individuals and their relationships rather than one of settlements and migrations. As such, A Daughter of the Middle Border was a continuation and not a repetition of A Son of the Middle Border. Garland planned to answer many of the lingering questions his readers had expressed regarding his intention to gain a new daughter for his aging mother, accounting for his childhood friends, chronicling his father's reluctance to return to a new homestead at West Salem, Wisconsin, and many other queries, both literary and personal of his life.
In 1922, A Daughter of the Middle Border was selected as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Lonnie E. Underhill
Gilbert, Arizona
lonnieunderhill@gmail.com
Contact: garlandsociety@gmail.com
Copyright © 2015
**We wish to thank Keith Newlin who created the original Garland Society website, ensuring that the Hamlin Garland Society had a permanent home,
Copyright © 2015
**We wish to thank Keith Newlin who created the original Garland Society website, ensuring that the Hamlin Garland Society had a permanent home,