In A Daughter of the Land, Porter achieved her greatest sophistication and mastery of novelistic technique; the faults of the other novels are muted here. The choice of an unconventional heroine lessens Porter's customary sentimentality, allowing her to portray family life realistically, with parental favoritism and squabbles and jealousies, as well as affection, among the siblings. Agrarian life is clearly valued, but descriptions of nature are less intrusive, and there is less anthropomorphism. Because the.....
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