The Schoolmaster's Progress

by Caroline M.S. Kirkland

Overview

The Schoolmaster's Progress is a humorous short story by American writer, Caroline Kirkland.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148433545
Publisher:	Intelligentsia Publishing
Publication date:	07/14/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	47 KB

About the Author

Caroline Matilda Stansbury Kirkland (1801-1864) wrote of the frontier life of the Middle West in the mid-nineteenth century. Her principal collection of short stories is Western Clearings (1845), from which The Schoolmaster's Progress, first published in The Gift for 1845 (out in 1844), is taken. Other stories republished in that collection are The Ball at Thram's Huddle (April, 1840, Knickerbocker Magazine), Recollections of the Land-Fever (September, 1840, Knickerbocker Magazine), and The Bee-Tree (The Gift for 1842; out in 1841). Her description of the country schoolmaster, "a puppet cut out of shingle and jerked by a string," and the local color in general of this and other stories give her a leading place among the writers of her period who combined fidelity in delineating frontier life with sufficient fictional interest to make a pleasing whole of permanent value.