How did Minnie Rose Lovgreen, a 19th-century English farm girl with next to no education, narrowly miss sinking with the Titanic? How did she escape her abusive husband in the dead of winter? How did she learn to read, write, cook, sew, and to nourish children, plants, and animals? How did she wend her way from England to Canada to Bainbridge Island, Washington? How did she and her 2nd husband build and run, for 30 years, a prizewinning dairy that grew to 75 cows on 170 acres? And finally, how did she, dying of cancer at age 86, manage to spill out this life story, having already published Minnie Rose Lovgreen? How did she achieve all this long before women s lib? ...Well... said Minnie Rose, a lifelong storyteller... I had to use my head for something... This book tells her story, tape-recorded in her own words. Born in 1888, Minnie Rose was the 8th of 19 children on her family s 200-acre wheat farm in Norfolk County, England. At age 11, she left home to work as a housemaid and never...

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