Life in Prairie Land

Description:

Eliza Farnham (1815-1864) was a novelist, feminist, abolitionist and activist for prison reform. She moved to Illinois from New York in 1835 and married, returning to New York in 1841. This memoir covers those years on the Illinois prairie, near Pekin.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Description and travel,  Biography,  History,  Women pioneers,  Pioneers,  Travel,  Manners and customs,  Frontier and pioneer life, northwest, old,  Frontier and pioneer life

People: Eliza W. Farnham (1815-1864),  Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham

Places: Illinois

Times: 1778-1865,  To 1865