Deer Creek: The Story of a Golden Childhood

Year of Publication
1947
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
310 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Gulielma Fell Alsop
Publisher
Vanguard Press
City
New York
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Abstract
The author reimagines her childhood at her family’s summer home with her O’Hara and Denny ancestors.
Notes
The author was descended from the O’Haras and Dennys, two of Pittsburgh’s first families.
Author Biography
Gulielma Fell Alsop (1881-1978), born in Pittsburgh, was a doctor, educator, and writer. Her father Reese Fell Alsop was a prominent Episcopal clergyman; her sister Mary O'Hara was an early screenwriter and author of the popular 1941 novel My Friend Flicka. Gulielma graduated from Barnard College in 1903, became a doctor who did medical missionary work in China, and returned to New York to establish the medical college at Barnard, which she directed for 35 years. She is buried in Hartford, Vermont.
Time
1825
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