Wheeler, Harriet
Entry updated 12 August 2018. Tagged: Author.
(1858-1924) US author whose The Woman in Stone (1903) presents elegiacally, though not without convinced Christian condescension, the declining culture of the Ojibwe nation of Native Americans through a tale in which the discovery of the petrified body of a woman from ancient times opens into the description of a doomed Lost Race. [JC]
Harriet Martha Wheeler
born Odanah, Wisconsin: 1858
died Appleton, Wisconsin: April 1924
works (selected)
- The Woman in Stone (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1903) [hb/]
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