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To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite










Through it all-weddings and births, illnesses and snowstorms, changing seasons and changing times-Elinore maintained correspondence with her former employer Juliet Coney in Denver, Colorado. Over the next five years, she not only made a home for herself, but traveled extensively across the state, befriending every neighbor within a hundred miles. Elinore soon fell in love with the land’s vast, untamed beauty, and filed a claim for her own adjoining property under the Homestead Act. In 1909, Elinore Pruitt answered an ad in the Denver Post to become Henry Clyde Stewart’s housekeeper on his homestead outside Burntfork, Wyoming. This “warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative” memoir of a woman homesteader in early twentieth-century Wyoming inspired the acclaimed film Heartland (The Wall Street Journal). Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart Based on actual events in the author’s life, To Sir, With Love is a powerfully moving story that celebrates courage, commitment, and vision, and is the inspiration for the classic film starring Sidney Poitier.

To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite

And over the course of a remarkable year, he will touch the lives of his students in extraordinary ways, even as they in turn, unexpectedly and profoundly, touch his. He will teach them to respect themselves and to call him “Sir.” He will open up vistas before them that they never knew existed. He will treat his students as people poised to enter the adult world. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats, suspicion, and derision, Braithwaite takes a radical new approach. With opportunities for black men limited in post–World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. A dramatic picture of discrimination” (Kirkus Reviews). Summary This schoolroom drama that inspired the classic Sidney Poitier film is “a microcosm of the racial issues . . . Sorry, the publisher does not allow users to read this book from the country from which you are connecting.












To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite