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The Friendly Persuasion

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~3h 34min
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English
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History
Quakers
Fiction
harcourt 12 views
ISBN
015602909X, 9780156029094
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Jessamyn West

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."...

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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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