The Prairie WifeArthur StringerOmniClassics · Literature
The Prairie Wife
Arthur StringerA woman used to fashionable travel records the surprises of marriage on the prairie.
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About the book
Writing to her friend Matilda Anne, Chaddie explains the sudden changes that have carried her from a comfortable social world to life with Duncan on a prairie homestead. The collapse of her finances has helped overturn her expectations, but the new life is more than a simple fall in circumstances. A tiny house, demanding chores, weather, animals, neighbors, and the adjustments of marriage provide a succession of practical and emotional discoveries. Her lively account makes room for complaint, affectionate comedy, loneliness, and growing attachment. Arthur Stringer builds the novel through dated entries, allowing the difference between remembered luxury and immediate necessity to emerge in the details of a woman learning what her chosen home requires.
- Marriage and adaptation
- Homestead life
- Independence and belonging
Why read it
Enjoy an intimate, humorous account of prairie life shaped by a narrator keenly aware of her own changing expectations.
English text of Arthur Stringer's 1915 novel