A Girl of the Limberlost

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Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Stories For Kids

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tonight, we’ll read an excerpt from “A Girl of the Limberlost” by Gene Stratton-Porter, published in 1909. This episode first aired in April of 2021. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp. Even at the time of its publication, this impressive wetland region was being reduced by heavy logging, natural oil extraction and drainage for agriculture. The author, Stratton-Porter, was considered one of the most popular woman novelists of the era. Elnora Comstock is an impoverished teenager who lives with her widowed mother, Katharine Comstock, on the edge of the Limberlost swamp. Elnora’s mother treats her neglectfully, and makes her to go to her first day of high school at a new school unprepared. She is wearing ugly, out-dated clothes, and doesn’t have proper books or tuition. Luckily, Elnora is a plucky and good-hearted young woman. She also has loving neighbors who want to help her. And that is where we will start. — read by V — Support us: Listen ad-free on Patreon Get Snoozecast merch like cozy sweatshirts and accessories

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2:02.0	Tonight, we'll read an excerpt from a Girl of the Limber Lost
2:06.0	by Jean Stratton Porter, published in 1909.
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