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{{short description|1902 novel by Jack London}}
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| name          = A Daughter of the Snows
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| caption       = First edition
| author        = [[Jack London]]
| illustrator   = [[Frederick C. Yohn]]
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| country       = United States
| language      = English
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| published     = 1902 ([[J. B. Lippincott & Co.|J. B. Lippincott Company]])
| media_type    = Print (hardcover)
| pages         = 334 pp
| oclc          = 25651256
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'''''A Daughter of the Snows''''' (1902) is [[Jack London]]'s first novel. Set in the [[Yukon]], it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a [[Stanford University|Stanford]] graduate and physical [[Valkyrie]]"<ref name="jlw" /> who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a [[Yale University|Yale]]-trained mining engineer.<ref name="jl" />

The novel is noteworthy for its strong and self-reliant heroine, one of many who would people his fiction. Her name echoes that of his mother, Flora Wellman, though her inspiration has also been said to include London's friend [[Anna Strunsky]].<ref name="jlw" />

Modern commentators have criticized the novel for its approval of the main character's view that [[Anglo-Saxons]] are racially superior.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Stanford University Press| isbn = 9780804735162| last1 = Cassuto| first1 = Leonard| last2 = Reesman| first2 = Jeanne Campbell| title = Rereading Jack London| date = 1998| page = 161}}</ref>

The novel was commissioned by publisher [[S. S. McClure]], who provided London a $125 a month stipend to write it.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://literatureandbelief.byu.edu/publications/california_naturalists.pdf|title = The "California Naturalists": Memory as Spiritual Renewal and Other Parallels in London, Norris, and Steinbeck|last = Crisler|first = Jesse S|journal = Literature and Belief|volume = 21|issue = 1|publisher = Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature}}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==References==
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<ref name="jlw">
''Jack London's Women'', Clarice Stasz, Univ of Massachusetts
Press, 2001, {{ISBN|1-55849-301-8}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=o0NksItg9V0C&dq=%22A+Daughter+of+the+Snows%22+%22Frona+Welse%22&pg=PA63 Google Books]
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<ref name="jl">
''Jack London'', Charles Child Walcutt, U of Minnesota Press, 1966, {{ISBN|0-8166-0387-1}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=npL64cG2S6IC&dq=%22Frona+Welse%22+%22Vance+Corliss%22&pg=PA19 Google Books]
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==External links==
* {{gutenberg|no=14654|name=A Daughter of the Snows}}
* {{librivox book | title=A Daughter of the Snows | author=Jack LONDON}}

{{Jack London novels}}

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[[Category:1902 American novels]]
[[Category:Novels by Jack London]]
[[Category:Novels set in Yukon]]
[[Category:J. B. Lippincott & Co. books]]
[[Category:1902 debut novels]]


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