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Onoto Watanna : the story of Winnifred Eaton

Title: Onoto Watanna : the story of Winnifred Eaton / Diana Birchall.
Author: Birchall, Diana, 1945-
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Description

xxii, 252 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"In 1901, the young Winnifred Eaton arrived in New York City with literary ambitions, journalistic experience, and the manuscript for A Japanese Nightingale, the novel that would sell many thousands of copies and make her famous. Hers is a real Horatio Alger story, with fascinating added dimensions of race and gender."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Asian American experience

Uniform Title

Asian American experience.

Subjects

Asian American women > Biography
Novelists, Canadian > 20th century > Biography
Japan > In literature
Chinese > Canada > Ethnic identity
Eurasians > Canada > Biography
Eurasians > United States > Biography
Eaton, Winnifred, 1879-1954

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index.

ISBN

0252026071 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

00012167

OCLC

ocm45284567
SCSB-4175885

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries