Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women
Co-edited by Carolyn Korsmeyer, Christy Matheson, Elaine Aucoin Schroller, Kay Smith-Blum and Kimberly Sullivan
THE STORIES IN THIS COLLECTION depict ordinary women from the 1470s to the 1970s meeting life's challenges with fierce determination.
An unhappy housewife in 1950s California gathers the courage to escape an abusive marriage. As local men are shipped off to WWI, a young Yorkshire woman joins others to keep a munitions factory at peak operation. As her land and way of life are threatened, a 19th-century Chickasaw wife and mother rekindles the strength of her ancestors. A midwife strives to protect mothers from accusations of witchcraft. A Victorian portrait artist possesses a rare sought-after talent that dispatches unwanted relatives.
Foreign invaders, rigid domestic authorities, strictures of society and religion, the supernatural and love and family bonds serve as catalysts for the feisty women in these tales.
READER REVIEWS
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“Ha! True-to-life and so well rendered.”
SAMANTHA DUNN,
author of Failing Paris and Not by Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life, Executive Editor of Coast Magazine
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ELLEN SUSSMAN,
National Best-Selling author, founder Sonoma County Writers Camp, adjunct professor UCLA, Stanford, Rutgers, San Francisco Library Laureate
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