Ames Sheldon

Lemons In The Garden of Love (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It's 1977 and Cassie Lyman, a graduate student in women's history, is struggling to find a topic for her doctoral dissertation. When she discovers a trove of drawings, suffrage cartoons, letters, and diaries at Smith College belonging to Kate Easton, founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts in 1916, she believes she has located her subject. Digging deeper into Kate's life, Cassie learns that she and Kate are relatedclosely. Driven to understand why her family has never spoken of Kate, Cassie travels to Cape Ann to attend her sister's shotgun wedding, where she questions her female relatives about Kateonly to find herself soon afterward in the same challenging situation Kate faced.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781647420499
• Artikelnr.: 59895909

Autorenporträt

Ames Sheldon worked as a reporter for two small-town newspapers in Minnesota before becoming lead author and editor of Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, which ignited her passion for studying and writing about the history of women in America. After that, Sheldon ventured into the world of creative nonfiction, writing grant proposals and raising funds for the Sierra Club in San Francisco, the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul, the Minneapolis Public Library, and a variety of other nonprofits. She lives with her husband in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.