Wild Life (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Molly Gloss
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s
- Setting: Farming and logging communities in southwestern Washington State
- Principal Characters: Charlotte Bridger Drummond, Melba Pelton, Horace Stuband
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Adventure, Cannibalism, Wilderness, Lumber or lumbering, Washington
- Locales: Washington
The novel opens in 1999 when a grandchild of Charlotte Bridger Drummond stumbles across a journal and assorted literary papers and sends them off to her sister for possible publication. The diary extends from March to June of 1905, when Charlotte reviews her placid existence and sets off on a life-altering adventure.
Initially, Charlotte’s days are spent chasing her five boys around her farm while she tries to steal a few hours for writing potboilers to earn a meager income. A confirmed feminist, Charlotte is often at comical odds with her fifty-two-year-old housekeeper, Melba...
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