The Lady Doc

Lockhart, Caroline, 1870-1962Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 492K words
Chapters: 50

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Lady Doc by Caroline LockhartAuthor: Lockhart, Caroline, 1870-1962,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Nov 3, 2007

Editor's review

The Lady Doc is an American novel by Caroline Lockhart, classified under American and Canadian literature and now made available as a free ebook by Project Gutenberg. Lockhart was active in the early twentieth century, and her works often use the American West as a setting and focus on how characters fare and choose within a particular social environment. This book features a woman doctor as its protagonist, a subject distinctive in American fiction of the time, and readers can use it to observe how early images of women in professions were presented in popular literature. As a public-domain ebook, it is extremely easy to obtain and makes a good introduction to early twentieth-century American popular fiction. Readers need not seek strong plot excitement but can attend to dialogue, local color, and the writing of gender roles. For readers studying American Western literature or narratives of women's professions, it can serve as supplementary material; general readers should browse it lightly and take in the narrative pace and language habits of the era.

Who it's for

A good fit for

General readers interested in American Western fiction
Literature enthusiasts interested in early portrayals of women in professions
Learners who need free public-domain English reading material
Students and researchers studying early twentieth-century American popular fiction

Not a good fit for

Readers expecting fast-paced, strongly plotted modern fiction
Readers unaccustomed to English originals or early twentieth-century narrative style
Readers seeking detailed medical or professional content

Reading tips

Read the first few chapters to judge whether the narrative pace and language difficulty suit you before committing to the whole book.
Note as you read how the woman doctor interacts with those around her for later review.
Consult background material on early twentieth-century American Western society to help understand the characters' situation.
For language learning, set a fixed daily amount and read for gist before looking up unfamiliar words.

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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.

FAQ

Is this book in Chinese or English?

This is an English original published by Project Gutenberg as a public-domain ebook. Chinese readers need some English reading ability or should use a dictionary and other aids.

What is Project Gutenberg?

Project Gutenberg was the first project to provide free ebooks, founded by Michael Hart in 1971, dedicated to digitizing public-domain books for free access. This book is published through that project.

Is this book suitable for learning English?

It can be used as extensive reading material, but the work was written long ago and its language differs from contemporary English, with some expressions that may seem dated. It is best read after gaining some foundation, with emphasis on understanding the gist.

Do I need to know the author's background before reading?

Not necessarily. Lockhart's works mostly involve life in the American West, and readers can enter the text directly. For deeper understanding, a brief look at early twentieth-century Western American society and the status of women in professions can help.

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About the author

Lockhart, Caroline, 1870-1962 Author

Caroline Lockhart (1870–1962) was an English-language novelist about whose life relatively little is recorded; public information is limited, and her nationality, education, and writing career cannot be reliably established. Judging from the five works held in the collection, she wrote mainly popular fiction set in the American West. Her representative works include The Fighting Shepherdess, The Lady Doc, The Dude Wrangler, The Man from the Bitter Roots, and ‘Me--Smith’. These titles suggest ranches, shepherds, doctors, outsiders, and mountain wilderness, indicating that her subjects center on frontier life and the conflicts and emotional entanglements of rural communities. Her style tends toward popular storytelling, with an emphasis on plot and characterization, and plain, readable language suited to a general audience. Despite the lack of a confirmed biography or chronology, these works remain useful examples for the study of early twentieth-century American popular Western fiction.