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'''''A Daughter of the Snows''''' ([[1902]]), [[Jack London]]'s first novel, is little read today. It is, however, notable for its heroine, Frona Welse (whose name echoes that of his mother, Flora Wellman). Frona is a strong and self-reliant woman, one of many who would people his fiction.
'''''A Daughter of the Snows''''' (1902), [[Jack London]]'s first novel, is little read today. It is, however, notable for its heroine, Frona Welse (whose name echoes that of his mother, Flora Wellman). Frona is a strong and self-reliant woman, one of many who would people his fiction.


It is also notable for a racist sensibility which is also detectable in some of his other work. A character says: "We are a race of doers and fighters, of globe-encirclers and zone-conquerors... All that the other races are not, the [[British people|Anglo-Saxon]], or Teuton if you please, is." Such sentiments were common currency in Jack London's time and he places them in the mouths of characters, not the narrator.
It is also notable for a racist sensibility which is also detectable in some of his other work. A character says: "We are a race of doers and fighters, of globe-encirclers and zone-conquerors... All that the other races are not, the [[British people|Anglo-Saxon]], or Teuton if you please, is." Such sentiments were common currency in Jack London's time and he places them in the mouths of characters, not the narrator.
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A Daughter of the Snows
Probably circa 1910 reprint cover
Claims to first edition, but probably circa 1910 reprint
AuthorJack London
IllustratorFrederick C. Yohn
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherJ. B. Lippincott Company
Publication date
October 1902
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages334 pp
ISBNNA Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
OCLC25651256

A Daughter of the Snows (1902), Jack London's first novel, is little read today. It is, however, notable for its heroine, Frona Welse (whose name echoes that of his mother, Flora Wellman). Frona is a strong and self-reliant woman, one of many who would people his fiction.

It is also notable for a racist sensibility which is also detectable in some of his other work. A character says: "We are a race of doers and fighters, of globe-encirclers and zone-conquerors... All that the other races are not, the Anglo-Saxon, or Teuton if you please, is." Such sentiments were common currency in Jack London's time and he places them in the mouths of characters, not the narrator.

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