Duaghter of Earth Author:Agnes Smedley This dirt-hard proletarian feminist novel recreates the amazing life story of an American working worman - teacher, writer, and tireless political activist in the cause of human justice. It chronicles Smedley's childhood of grinding poverty in small towns throughout the West and Southwest; her desperate struggle for an education; and her work a... more »s tobacco stripper, waitress, teacher, and revolutionary.« less