A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba

Interesting and well-read

(5 stars)

Wendy Mathieu

It is always interesting to read first-hand accounts of those who pioneered. The mosquitoes would have been awful!

(4 stars)

oldman

Nice fast paced reading of letters of farm life in the 1880's. Well read by Sibella Denton another one of the very good and enjoyable readers on Librivox. Thank you so much Sibella enjoy!

Interesting

(4 stars)

Phxjennifer

The author is on vacation, doing housework and learning to cook as a lark, taking her BFF along and backstopped by the professional cook. She is worlds away from the isolation and relentless, backbreaking routine of most pioneers and farm wives. Still, she writes interesting letters, uncluttered with the fashionably florid prose of the Victorian era, and taking the occasional miseries (mosquitoes, lack of privacy, etc.) philosophically. Very well narrated, too.

Series of briskly written letters

(4.5 stars)

Matthew McNaughton

The author doesn't go into much detail, but keeps things moving along. Her social class, and the fact that she is just visiting, seems to prevent her from learning much about the actual life of the people in the region. Reader's tapping at the keyboard to page down was distracting at times. Good reading overall.

Also includes Colorado

(4 stars)

TLocke

This was more of a Travelog than expected, but we'll written and read. The author has a good eye in noticing details of lands, and to a lesser degree, the people that lived in the West of both Canada and US. Excellent reader.

Good insight into a woman's Frontier life

(5 stars)

e ho

I thoughrouly enjoyed the book as well as the reader's voice. thank you.

(5 stars)

short stuff

Since Im a prairie girl I found this book interesting. How times have changed though...

Wonderful story

(5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

Well read and the writing had me agape with the info and adventures!