A Sweeter Woman

Book

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

A Sweeter Woman

Entry/Object ID

2021.2.240

Description

'A Sweeter Woman' by Louise Platt Hauck. A bound book in a orange with a book jacket. The front of the jacket is a picture of a military man standing by a fireplace smoking a pipe. He is talking to an older woman sitting is a chair by the fire. A woman dressed in a suit is standing away from them.

Context

Copyright © 1943 Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. Twenty-two untitled chapters. A warm, romance novel about Elizabeth Burns and her husband Captain Jim Ashford, who live with his mother.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Transcription

Language

English

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

5.25" x 7.75" x 1.5"

Book Details

Author

Louise Platt Hauck

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Notes

Author Louise Platt Hauck was born in Argentine, Kansas, the daughter of Emory Melzar and Elizabeth Landon (Prescott) Platt. She attended high school in St. Joseph, Missouri, and married Leslie Franklin Hauck in 1907. They had three children: Elizabeth Prescott, Jean Louise, and Leslie Franklin. In 1915 she began writing for newspapers and magazines, and she published over sixty novels, many of them for girls and boys, using a number of pen names, in addition to her own, including Peter Ash, Louise Landon, and Jean Randall.