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The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero Wideness and Wonder
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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2011
For those who best know O'Keeffe as a painter of animal skulls and Southwestern landscapes, Rubin's volume will be an eye-opener; she was already an established painter in her forties when she began her skull series. Rubin's text starts with O'Keeffe's childhood in Wisconsin, her home until age fifteen when her family moved to Virginia. At a school for "Southern ladies," the teen rebelled, attracting attention for her nonconformist attire and unconventional behavior, boldly proclaiming: "I am going to live a differen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
