Cut from strong cloth
By: written by Linda Harris Sittig
Contributors: Freedom Forge Press
Series: Threads of courage -- bk. 1
Publisher: Freedom Forge Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leesburg, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781940553023
Subjects: Fiction; History; Social aspects; Businesswomen; Emigration and immigration; Social change
Description: At nineteen, Ellen Canavan lives for the dream of her late father: to succeed in business. But being a woman in 1861, she finds the path to entrepreneurship blocked many times over. The threat of war, her mother's disapproval, and even a malicious arsonist threaten to limit the aspiring textile merchant to the status of impoverished Irish immigrant. As she travels from the factories of Philadelphia to the riverfront wharves of Savannah with her business mentor, James Nolan, the Civil War explodes amidst their blossoming love, and the two are separated. Can Ellen's undaunted, fiery strength guide her through a divided nation, or must she abandon her dream in order to save her own life?