Inglis Fletcher (1879–1969)
Author of The Scotswoman
About the Author
Novelist Inglis Fletcher was born in Alton, Illinois in 1879. She spent half of her adult life moving around northern California, Washington, and Alaska because her husband was a mining engineer. After writing two successful novels, she became interested in North Carolina's early years while show more researching her ancestors. She spent six years working on Raleigh's Eden, a historical novel about plantation families from 1765-1782. She believed in researching her novels extensively and did not begin to outline her plots until she was immersed in all the details of the time period. When Raleigh's Eden was criticized for historical errors, she had documented quotations to publicly counter all accusations. She moved to North Carolina in 1941 and wrote an additional eleven novels of the Carolina series which covered two hundred years of North Carolina history from 1585-1789. She received an honorary degree from the University of North Carolina and the first North Carolina Award for Literature in 1964. She died in 1969. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Birthdate
- 1879-10-20
- Date of death
- 1969-05-30
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- historical novelist
- Awards and honors
- Honorary Doctorate (Women's College of The University of North Carolina)
North Carolina Award for Literature (1974) - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Alton, Illinois, USA
- Places of residence
- Alton, Illinois, USA
Northern California, USA
Washington, USA
Alaska, USA
North Carolina, USA - Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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An enjoyable trip to the early years of our country. At first, I was worried that it was early politics, and while politics did play a role, there was plenty more. North Carolina insisted on a bill of rights before ratifying. Plantation life and interesting people of the small town of Edenton. A touch of romance and danger, and why not throw in a hurricane? I would love to get more books from this series. #HIstoricalfiction#NorthCarolina#plantationlife#BillofRights
Shallow. It's a brief book, with a large font and double-spaced leading, and its coverage of topics and characters is just as perfunctory. All the exciting events take place off-stage. As history it is uninformative, just lots of white male landowners sitting around talking and signing things, none of which is ever really clear in practical application. Nor is it especially good as romance, since much of the wooing takes place off-stage and all of the weddings.
The best I can say for this one show more is "inoffensive", and that's only if the reader doesn't mind a heaping helping of sexism, classism, racism, and stereotypes. What I can't abide is that there are incidents with pirates, but they're never given a scene. For those who care, there is a late-breaking show of Christian faith.
Library copy
[Just in case you were wondering, my grandmother's copies are a little too delicate for reading] show less
The best I can say for this one show more is "inoffensive", and that's only if the reader doesn't mind a heaping helping of sexism, classism, racism, and stereotypes. What I can't abide is that there are incidents with pirates, but they're never given a scene. For those who care, there is a late-breaking show of Christian faith.
Library copy
[Just in case you were wondering, my grandmother's copies are a little too delicate for reading] show less
Shallow. It's a brief book, with a large font and double-spaced leading, and its coverage of topics and characters is just as perfunctory. All the exciting events take place off-stage. As history it is uninformative, just lots of white male landowners sitting around talking and signing things, none of which is ever really clear in practical application. Nor is it especially good as romance, since much of the wooing takes place off-stage and all of the weddings.
The best I can say for this one show more is "inoffensive", and that's only if the reader doesn't mind a heaping helping of sexism, classism, racism, and stereotypes. What I can't abide is that there are incidents with pirates, but they're never given a scene. For those who care, there is a late-breaking show of Christian faith.
Library copy
[Just in case you were wondering, my grandmother's copies are a little too delicate for reading] show less
The best I can say for this one show more is "inoffensive", and that's only if the reader doesn't mind a heaping helping of sexism, classism, racism, and stereotypes. What I can't abide is that there are incidents with pirates, but they're never given a scene. For those who care, there is a late-breaking show of Christian faith.
Library copy
[Just in case you were wondering, my grandmother's copies are a little too delicate for reading] show less
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Statistics
- Works
- 19
- Members
- 495
- Popularity
- #49,935
- Rating
- 3.4
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 53