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Gene Stratton-Porter's novel, set in Southern California at the time of World War I, which was the basis for the 1940 film "Her First Romance".Infamous for its bias against Asian immigrants, commentators have noted the widespread nativism and anti-immigrant sentiment in California... Read Full Overview

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter In Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter, Stratton-Porter tells the coming-of-age story of high school student... Read Full Overview

Her Father's Daughter (1921), one of Stratton-Porter's last novels, was set in southern California, outside Los Angeles, where she had moved around 1920. The novel is especially biased against immigrants of Asian descent. Judith Reick Long, one of Stratton-Porter's biographers,... Read Full Overview

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""Her Father's Daughter"" is a novel written by Gene Stratton-Porter, available in a large print edition. The story revolves around Linda Strong, a young woman who is determined to prove herself as capable and independent despite being the daughter of a wealthy and influential... Read Full Overview

A classic novel which tells the story of two orphaned sisters in rural California.

Set in the bucolic rurality of Los Angeles County, circa 1920, Her Father's Daughter is the tale of Linda Strong, a high school junior who struggles to get from under the thumb of her scheming, shallow sister Eileen. The author uses the conflict as a frame from which to wax poetic... Read Full Overview

Linda Strong thrust forward a foot and critically examined the narrow vamp, the projecting sole, the broad, low heel of her well-worn brown calfskin shoe. Then her glance lifted to the face of Donald Whiting, one of the most brilliant and popular seniors of the high school. Her... Read Full Overview

Short excerpt: There were a few high places on the peak of Linda's soul and on one of them homed a small flock of notes of rapture; notes as sweet as the voice of the white-banded mockingbird of Argentina.

Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter is one of the greatest works in the field of fiction. It is one of the vintage collections.Stratton-Porter was an American feminist, environmentalist, photographer and one of Indiana's most famous female authors. Many of her writings... Read Full Overview