Mary hallock foote biography of christopher
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THE DESERT AND THE SOWN
By Mary Hallock Foote
CONTENTS
I. — A COUNCIL OF THE ELDERS
II. — INTRODUCING A SON-IN-LAW
III. — THE INITIAL LOVE
IV. — A MAN THAT HAD A WELL IN HIS OWN COURT
V. — DISINHERITED
VI. — AN APPEAL TO NATURE
VII. — MARKING TIME
VIII. — A HUNTER'S DIARY
IX. — THE POWER OF WEAKNESS
X. — THE WHITE PERIL
XI. — A SEARCHING OF HEARTS
XII. — THE BLOOD-WITE
XIII. — CURTAIN
XIV. — KIND INQUIRIES
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By Anna Kathryn Lanier
Once again I’m turning to a book by Chris Enss, WITH GREAT HOPE: WOMEN OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH, also written by JoAnn Chartier. This book has a dozen or so stories of women who went “west with great hope for the future [and] left a legacy.” Mary Hallock went west with great reluctance. A Quaker from New York, Mary was already a well-established artist when she married, in great trepidation, Arthur Foote in 1876. She had learned the intricate, difficult and tedious artistic process of woodcarving while studying at the Cooper Union Institute School of Design, the only art school at that time who admitted women. Her instructor, William Linton declared her the best wood designer at Cooper Union. It was just the beginning of praises for her work.
Within a few years of graduating at the age of seventeen, Mary had sold four pictures for the book Beyond the Mississippi. Ten years after leaving school, Mary was busy illustrating books for a number of publishers, including Harper’s Weekly. She was quite content with her life, unmarried as she was.
In 1874, she met Arthur Foote at a party and while they conversed in private, she sketched him, unaware that he would later