Kansas Women in Literature by Nettie Garmer Barker
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Chicago University, and Harvard Summer
School, she has as she says, ``graduated sometimes and has a degree but never `finished' her education.'' Desiring to get the school out into the world as well as the world back to the school, she has spoken and written on ``Moving Into The King Row,'' ``Other Peoples' Children,'' ``Spirit of the Younger Generation,'' ``Vine Versus Oak,'' and ``The Larger Service.'' ``Pictures Eight Hundred Children Selected,'' ``Speaking of Automobiles,'' ``The Unusual Thing,'' ``The High Cost of Learning,'' and ``Wanted--A Funeral of Algebraic Phraseology;'' also, some verse, ``The Twentieth Regiment Knight'' and ``Back to God's Country'' are magazine work that never came back. School Science & Mathematics, a magazine to which she contributes and of which she is an associate editor, gives hers as the only woman's name on its staff of fifty editors. Her book, ``The Passin' On Party,'' raises the author to the rank of a classic. To quote a critic: it is ``a little like `Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,' a little like `Uncle Tom's Cabin,' but not just like either of them. She reaches right down into human breasts and |
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