Celia Garth
By: Gwen Bristow.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781556527876
Subjects: Women -- South Carolina -- Fiction; Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the eyes of a heroine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict, this novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as she transforms from a fashionable dressmaker to a patriot spy. When the king's army captures Charleston and sweeps through the Carolina countryside in a wave of blood, fire, and debauchery, the rebel cause seems all but lost. But when Francis Marion, a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army known as "The Swamp Fox," recruits Celia as a spy, the tides of war begin to shift. This classic historical novel captures the fervor of 18th-century Charleston, the American Revolution, and a woman who risked her life for the patriot cause.