The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Smiley
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The mid-1850’s
- Setting: Illinois, the Kansas Territory, and Missouri
- Principal Characters: Lydia (Lidie) Harkness Newton, Thomas Newton, Frank Brereton, Charles Bisket, Louisa Bisket, Richard Day, Helen Day, Lorna, David R. Graves
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Abolitionists
- Locales: Kansas
Jane Smiley is among the most versatile of modern novelists. Her early novels focused on relationships within families; one of them had the structure of a mystery novel. The works for which she has received high praise have been more varied as to subject matter. The Greenlanders (1988) is a mythic study of ancient Vikings. A Thousand Acres (1991) uses the plot of William Shakespeare’s King Lear to investigate a contemporary midwestern farm family. Moo (1995) is a long and hilarious satire of life at a huge midwestern university. The All-True Travels and...
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