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Becoming Relevant

Becoming Relevant

Welty, Parmenter

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLetters & Essays

ISBN13: 9798346173984
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 14 2024
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

If you don't become engaged in the issue of the day, you succumb to irrelevancy: Alice Paul, 1920, President of Congressional Union. This quote inspired me to write Becoming Relevant, a novel of historical fiction ambitiously depicting two eras.
It is the story of the De Poitiers family in Yonkers, New York. The principal story begins in 1900, dominated by the two oldest daughters, Eleanor and Aquitainia, who vie for relevance in the struggle for women's right to vote. They subject the de Poitier family endlessly to arguments from both sides of the question, though are later upstaged by their younger sister Uva, who, as a nurse, heads overseas during World War I as the theme turns to the politics of war, the 'Spanish flu' epidemic, and grief.

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