| 词条 | Mary Ballou |
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| name = Mary D. B. Ballou | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = 1809 | birth_place = | death_date = 1894 | death_place = | occupation = Boardinghouse proprietress | nationality = American (United States) | period = 1852 | genre = | subject = Letters and observations | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = }}Mary Ballou (1809–94) was an American memoirist most notable for her collection of letters, I Hear the Hogs in My Kitchen. Written in 1852, they were later published in 1962.[1] Ballou's writing gave personal insight into the life of an American pioneer. With her husband, Ballou left her New Hampshire home for California, not in search of gold to be mined, but money to be made off those doing the mining. The Ballous ran a lucrative boarding house in Negro Bar, California. Her letters describe the antics of the miners she housed, as well as the unique experience of being a woman during the California Gold Rush. In addition to running a boarding house, she provided many services such as childcare, including nursing, making soap and sewing.[2] See also
References1. ^{{cite book |last1= Ballou |first1= Mary B. | title = "I hear the hogs in my kitchen" : a woman's view of the gold rush | publisher = F. W. Beinecke | location = | year = 1962 | isbn = |oclc= 11532088}} 2. ^{{cite book |last1= Rohrbough |first1= Malcolm J.| title = Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley and Los Angeles, California | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0-520-21659-4}} Further readingLet Them Speak for Themselves: Women in the American West 1849-1900 ed. Christiane Fischer (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1977) External links
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