![]() ![]() The other two point-of-view characters, Jemma and Wilson, were built from a conglomeration of other accounts. “Sometimes having too much is not good, but I made my way through it,” she said. At times it was difficult to choose which stories to include, especially since she would be limited to writing them from Georgy’s perspective. Many of the plot points were taken directly from the Woolsey family’s extensive correspondence. With all of her no-nonsense parenting, she was able to raise eight children on her own, after the early death of her husband. ![]() “It has been my experience,” she says at one point, “that the people who can profit most from lessons seldom know they need them.” ![]() During the war, Woolsey crosses paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl, and Ann-May Wilson, a harsh plantation mistress whose husband is fighting for the Confederacy.īurns opened the discussion with a question about Woolsey’s mother, Jane Eliza, and the pieces of wisdom she shares throughout. In “Sunflower Sisters,” Kelly introduces readers to Ferriday’s ancestor, Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse and ardent abolitionist. ![]() Author Martha Hall Kelly joined Northwest Passages Book Club to discuss her latest historical fiction novel, “Sunflower Sisters,” with The Spokesman-Review’s Kristi Burns Friday.īased on a true story, Kelly’s bestselling debut novel “Lilac Girls” introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite turned philanthropist who helped 72 women escape from the Ravensbruck concentration camp. ![]()
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