内容简介：
Eva Jeannette Carey 1912- Jeanne Carey-1995 are blood-linked, heart -sisters, their lives and loves reflected across a century. The Hope Chest tells the story of two women, at each end of the twentieth century, as they meet through the journals of the earliest, a schoolmarm from the Nebraska prairie. Eva Jean's journals and her needlework tell the story of her life in the early 1900?s. But it takes her own grand-niece, 83 years later, to put the full story together and discover America's early rigid code of morality, the beginnings of modern communication and an inspiring love story.