Brightness Remembered
- Author: Carol Williams
- SKU: 1993
- ISBN: 0897254317
- Our Price:
$22.50
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Description:
By Carol Williams. 224pp., smyth sewn, lithocase bound. 2001 #1993 $22.50
Looking for an interesting novel about Swiss immigrants? Here is one about a Swiss family which came to Saxe-Gotha Township in South Carolina in 1756. The second book in a trilogy, this novel, like the others, is about the blending of cultures and how these Swiss became American. All of our ancestors would have had similar experiences. The first book in the trilogy The Switzers saw the young Swiss couple, Johannes and Madle Lienhardt, through the end of the Cherokee War in 1761. The last book in the trilogy By Wonders and By War ends in 1782. What about the years in between?
In this book all characters are fictitious although the author has taken the name of one of the main characters from one of her own ancestors since, like her namesake, Margaret Allen is a strong-minded woman.
Margaret meets Rudi after rescuing him from a serious accident. Since he was from below the “Deadfall Line”, where the German-speakers settled, and she from above, where the Scots-Irish settled, there was bound to be trouble with a “Romeo-Juliet” type of situation.
Read all about this turbulent period and how these strong-willed people overcame many hardships.
