书城公版Kansas Women in Literature
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第13章 AMANDA T.JONES

One of the few Kansas women to have a place in Who's Who was the late Amanda T.Jones of Junction City.She was one of the most prolific poets of Kansas.

Her Atlantic is a story of the rebellion;Utah and Other Poems;

A Prairie Idyl;Flowers and a Weed;and Rubaiyat of Solomon Valley are volumes of verse.Her prose:Children's Stories,Fairy Arrows and The White Blackbird;A Psychic Autobiography,published in 1908;Man and Priest,a story of psychic detection;

Mother of Pioneers,and a novel ready for publication,A Daughter of Wall St.

Miss Jones originated a working women's home and patented many inventions,mostly household necessities.