Mary's Land
by Lucia St. Clair Robson
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The San Francisco Chronicle has praised Lucia St. Clair Robson for her re-creations of "colorful people, stunning landscapes, and arcane customs." And Cosmopolitan proclaimed that in a Robson novel "what is to us an unfamiliar world comes absolutely alive." Now the author of Ride the Wind and Walk in My Soul has crafted an enthralling tale of early Maryland. A truly American novel of dreams and courage, Mary's Land tells the story of two women who build a new life in a verdant country that show more is strange and threatening, yet gloriously sweet with promise. As the ship Charity sails from England across the Atlantic, two vastly different yet equally courageous women make the perilous journey. Strong-willed, upper class Margaret Brent has decided to make better use of her dowry than to hand it over to some doddering squire. She has invested in Lord Baltimore's Maryland plantation, because the new colony is her single chance for a home of her own, and the right to practice openly her Catholic religion. Anicah is a teenage guttersnipe who lives by her wits and quick tongue. kidnapped off the streets of Bristol, she is transported to the New World and indentured to Samuel Smythe, a local tavern keeper. Used to the world's indifference, she never envisioned a life of food, shelter, and only Goodwife Smythe's ill-temper with which to contend. And then there is Martin, who opens her heart to a woman's love. For Margaret and Anicah, the future is different from any they might have imagined. One will achieve the American dream, the other will keep moving in search of freedom. But both bring to glorious life the world of Mary's Land, a novel of such meticulous historical accuracy and detail that it could only have been written by the acclaimed Lucia St. Clair Robson. An Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild(c) and the Doubleday Book Club(c) show lessTags
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The ship Charity sails from England bringing a group of people, among whom there are some very different women. One is a guttersnipe who has been masquerading as a boy. The other is a catholic woman who is determined to get religious freedom and a new life.
It's not the worst read but it also could have been helped by keeping with one character and getting into more detail of their life. The language was occasionally a bit strained but it didn't bore, it just didn't enthrall me.
It's not the worst read but it also could have been helped by keeping with one character and getting into more detail of their life. The language was occasionally a bit strained but it didn't bore, it just didn't enthrall me.
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- Original title
- Mary's Land
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3568 .O3185 .M37 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- Reviews
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- Rating
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 1
