A Girl of the Limberlost
- Reading level
- Easy
- Price
- Free
About the book
"A Girl of the Limberlost" by Gene Stratton-Porter is a novel published in August 1909. Set in Indiana's vanishing Limberlost Swamp, it follows Elnora Comstock, an impoverished young woman struggling to attend high school despite her widowed mother's cold neglect and blame. Determined to earn an education, Elnora devises an enterprising scheme selling moths and artifacts from the swamp. Through heartache, betrayal, and emotional disasters, she fights to win her mother's love while pursuing her dreams of learning and independence.
- Didactic fiction
- Indiana
- Domestic fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Mothers and daughters
- Girls
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #125. A Girl of the Limberlost on Wikipedia.
