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The Lady Doc
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Still talking to himself he resumed the slipping and sliding and digging his heels hard to hold himself back.
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Still talking to himself he resumed the slipping and sliding and digging his heels hard to hold himself back.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
374 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1912
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June 21, 2021
I finished this one up a lot quicker than I expected. At first I did not care for the style of Caroline Lockhart's second novel. The first chapters tend to throw all the town's characters into the mix at once and that is always annoying for me. But as I kept going I became more intrigued with this 1912 book about a doctor who never should have been one.
I did not like Doctor Harpe. She was not a good person. She was a doctor only for the money she could make and she had her diploma from a school that specialized in granting degrees to the incompetent. When we first meet her she is being run out of town after the death of a patient of hers. She ends up in Crowheart, Wyoming full of evil plans and proceeds to put them all into action.
Generally if the main character is this despicable I don't care to learn more about their story, and the only thing that kept me going here was the hope that Someday Somewhere our Lady Doc would get what was coming to her and more. I wanted to be around at the end to see that happen. On top of that, the story was set up in a way that made me curious enough to keep going, just to find out what connection the events in chapter one had to the rest of the story. (That dangling loose end was tied up satisfactorily in chapter 27 of 30, by the way.)
Besides wondering when the boom would be lowered and what those loose ends were, I began to wonder as I read just how anyone could have such hatred towards another person as to write about them in this fashion. Because as it turns out, this book supposedly depicts life in Cody, Wyoming at the time when the author first lived there. There was a woman there named Doctor Frances Lane. And according to at least one reviewer, this book was based on this woman's life as it intersected with the author's. I hope GR member Karen Grimm won't mind my posting the link to her review here. It is about the extent of the information I could find about background for this book. Take a quick peek, it is only a paragraph.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So after reading that, my gut reaction to the book was OH, MEOW. And the Lady Doc became more and more of a soap opera villain. But in the end will she get what she deserves? Was Essie supposed to represent our author? Did she get what she deserved out of life? I was satisfied with the way events in the book turned out but I still have to wonder about the real life catfight that seemed to figure so strongly in the lives of our Lady Author and that Lady Doctor. What caused it? Why would an entire town choose sides over it? What really did happen? I am not fired up enough to really try and find out, but I suppose there would be some place where the entire story is told, if a person was willing to dig it up.
I imagine this book was a type of release for Lockhart. I hope she felt better when it was finished, but I would like to try at least one work of hers where she is not spitting venom the way she did here. I'm curious to see if that red hot hatred was the only thing that gave the story its momentum. How does she write without it? I'll take a peek at Gutenberg one of these days and pick another title of hers and find out.
I did not like Doctor Harpe. She was not a good person. She was a doctor only for the money she could make and she had her diploma from a school that specialized in granting degrees to the incompetent. When we first meet her she is being run out of town after the death of a patient of hers. She ends up in Crowheart, Wyoming full of evil plans and proceeds to put them all into action.
Generally if the main character is this despicable I don't care to learn more about their story, and the only thing that kept me going here was the hope that Someday Somewhere our Lady Doc would get what was coming to her and more. I wanted to be around at the end to see that happen. On top of that, the story was set up in a way that made me curious enough to keep going, just to find out what connection the events in chapter one had to the rest of the story. (That dangling loose end was tied up satisfactorily in chapter 27 of 30, by the way.)
Besides wondering when the boom would be lowered and what those loose ends were, I began to wonder as I read just how anyone could have such hatred towards another person as to write about them in this fashion. Because as it turns out, this book supposedly depicts life in Cody, Wyoming at the time when the author first lived there. There was a woman there named Doctor Frances Lane. And according to at least one reviewer, this book was based on this woman's life as it intersected with the author's. I hope GR member Karen Grimm won't mind my posting the link to her review here. It is about the extent of the information I could find about background for this book. Take a quick peek, it is only a paragraph.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So after reading that, my gut reaction to the book was OH, MEOW. And the Lady Doc became more and more of a soap opera villain. But in the end will she get what she deserves? Was Essie supposed to represent our author? Did she get what she deserved out of life? I was satisfied with the way events in the book turned out but I still have to wonder about the real life catfight that seemed to figure so strongly in the lives of our Lady Author and that Lady Doctor. What caused it? Why would an entire town choose sides over it? What really did happen? I am not fired up enough to really try and find out, but I suppose there would be some place where the entire story is told, if a person was willing to dig it up.
I imagine this book was a type of release for Lockhart. I hope she felt better when it was finished, but I would like to try at least one work of hers where she is not spitting venom the way she did here. I'm curious to see if that red hot hatred was the only thing that gave the story its momentum. How does she write without it? I'll take a peek at Gutenberg one of these days and pick another title of hers and find out.
July 15, 2014
No femme fatale, the “lady doc” of Caroline Lockhart’s novel is by no means attractive, but she is definitely dangerous. Practicing medicine on the frontier with her only certification from a diploma mill, she is untrained and lacks any ideals usually associated with her chosen profession. She sees it mainly as a source of income. The lives, health, and welfare of her patients are of little concern to her.
We first meet Emma Harpe as she is being run out of a Nebraska town after the death of a patient, for which she faces a malpractice suit. Sometime later, she steps off the train in a Wyoming settlement called Crowheart. Always looking for personal gain, she teams up with a land developer, Andy P. Symes, who is looking for gullible investors in a massive, ill-conceived irrigation project. ..
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We first meet Emma Harpe as she is being run out of a Nebraska town after the death of a patient, for which she faces a malpractice suit. Sometime later, she steps off the train in a Wyoming settlement called Crowheart. Always looking for personal gain, she teams up with a land developer, Andy P. Symes, who is looking for gullible investors in a massive, ill-conceived irrigation project. ..
More at my blog.
May 26, 2017
A Fine Read
As a participant in the Cody Monologues, famous and infamous Woman of the West, CCPA Studio Theatre, I've come to learn about Caroline Lockhart and Dr. Frances Lane, whom this book was based on. Their falling out divided the town of Cody, Wy. What the exact truth was depends on who's telling the tale. Interesting women both.
As a participant in the Cody Monologues, famous and infamous Woman of the West, CCPA Studio Theatre, I've come to learn about Caroline Lockhart and Dr. Frances Lane, whom this book was based on. Their falling out divided the town of Cody, Wy. What the exact truth was depends on who's telling the tale. Interesting women both.
October 1, 2019
This book was written in 1912 by a pioneer woman from Cody, WY. The characters in the book are actual depictions of real people from the town. At the turn of last century, Cody was just starting to develop. Reading about the varied ambitions of the town's people was fascinating. There really was a Lady Doc who the author really hated. The intro puts the book into perspective.
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