Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas 1834-1907 - Couverture souple

Curry, Carolyn Newton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0881465321 ISBN 13 : 9780881465327

Editeur : Mercer University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas was an intelligent, spirited woman born in 1834 to one of the wealthiest families in Georgia. At the age of fourteen she began and kept a diary for forty-one years, documenting her life before, during, and after the Civil War. In 1851 she graduated from Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia. Then in 1852 she married her Princeton-educated husband expecting to live a charmed life. However, with the coming of the Civil War and its aftermath, her life changed forever. Thomas experienced loss of wealth, bankruptcy, the death of loved ones, serious illness, and devastating family strife. In 1893, Thomas moved to Atlanta where she became active in many women's organizations. She found comfort in her work with the Women's Christian Union and the Suffrage Movement, and began producing articles for newspapers that describe her work after the war. In 1899 Thomas was elected president of the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association. Because of her own losses, she was sensitive to the well-being of other women. Her life is an amazing story of survival and transformation that speaks to women in our own time.

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À propos de l'auteur

Carolyn Curry holds a BA in English from Agnes Scott College and MA and PhD degrees in History from Georgia State University. She has taught at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta and The University of Kentucky. In 2015, Curry was named Georgia Author of the Year in Biography by the Georgia Writers Association and Suffer and Grow Strong was selected as one of the Books All Georgians Should Read by the Georgia Center for the Book. Curry is the founder and chair of Women Alone Together(R), a non-profit foundation created to meet the needs of women who are alone in our culture. The well-being of women past and present has been her lifelong passion. Curry resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mercer University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0881465321
• ISBN 13: 9780881465327
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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