A Barren Landscape by Geraldine Smith Priest

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America in the early 1800s was a cultural blank canvas, a barren landscape awaiting texture in the form of learning, literature and the arts.

Geraldine Priest creates this fictional history memoir of Eliza Rupp, the embodiment of th emany Americans striving to fill that void. The story of Eliza’s family and her study of the piano are interwoven with those of the leading literati, artists and educators of the day. Lie so many of them, she journeys to Europe to further her studies and make her own cultural contribution to America’s Barren Landscape.

America in the early 1800s was a cultural blank canvas, a barren landscape awaiting texture in the form of learning, literature and the arts.

Geraldine Priest creates this fictional history memoir of Eliza Rupp, the embodiment of th emany Americans striving to fill that void. The story of Eliza’s family and her study of the piano are interwoven with those of the leading literati, artists and educators of the day. Lie so many of them, she journeys to Europe to further her studies and make her own cultural contribution to America’s Barren Landscape.