IN HASTE, GRACE: Letters of a Victorian School Girl

Grace Nebeker was spoiled! No doubt about it, but she was also a winsome bundle of contradictions. Her letters written between 1884-1887, while she was a student at Glendale Female College paint a charming, but revealing portrait of a young woman struggling to carve out her own unique identity. These were written at a time when women’s role in society was narrowly prescribed by the Victorian Era. She had definite opinions about everything from family and friends to religion and politics. Sh...