Amanada

Anna Balmer Myers was an American author of romantic novels featuring the local color of Lancaster County Pennsylvania.She was born in Lancaster County in Manheim Pennsylvania and attended school there. She later attended Drexel University and lived and worked as a schoolteacher in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Her most well known work is Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites (1921); other works include Patchwork; a Story of the Plain People (1920) The Madonna of the Curb (1922) I Lift My Lamp and a collection of poetry entitled Rain on the Roof (1931). Amanda about a young Mennonite girl who seeks an education is hired as a teacher in a local one-room schoolhouse and eventually marries a childhood friend contains many delightful appreciations of life along with early 20th century reminiscences as indicated by such chapters as: The Snitzing Party Boiling Apple Butter The Spelling Bee and One Heart Made o' Two . Patchwork the story of a young girl growing up within a community of plain people some of the story in the format of a diary includes the girl's first romance. ...(wikipedia.org)