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Jan 1, 1902 — Jan 1, 1984· 82 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · SHORT

Jessamyn West

Also known as: Mary Jessamyn West, Jessamyn WEST

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Mary Jessamyn West (July 18, 1902 – February 23, 1984) was an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945). A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 and Whittier College in 1923. There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters (Litt.D) degree from Whittier College in 1946. She received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in 1975.

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"NEAR the banks of the Muscatatuck where once the woods had stretched, dark row on row, and where the fox grapes and wild mint still flourished, Jess Birdwell, an Irish Quaker, built his white clapboard house."

— from The Friendly Persuasion

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Collected stories of Jessamyn West

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The Friendly Persuasion

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Episodic chapters about the Birdwell family, nineteenth century Quakers living in Indiana during the period following the Civil War.

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The witch diggers

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Christie Fraser went to court Cate Conboy on Xmas Eve 1899. He had only met her once at his cousins sociable. During his visit he learned a lot about Cate, her family, and the inmated of the Poor Farm her father ran. The reader learns what happed to Cate's courtship and what role the "diggers" played.

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