Derby
Fern Michaels was the author of Kentucky Sunrise. I was enjoying her writing and thinking I might enjoy her Sisterhood books but the epilogue turned me off.
I was interested in your reviews of books about earlier years. I’m listening to A Proper Pursuit by Lynn Austin. It is set in 1893 in Chicago a few years after the fire. The title comes from her knowledge that she is expected to “marry well.” She finds out that, contrary to being told her mother had died, she had in fact divorced her father when she was very young and was living in Chicago. She is permitted by her father to travel alone to Chicago where she meets three aunts with varying viewpoints. She is torn between the expectation that she “marry well”–before she turns 21 which would mean she would be an “old maid” and the aunt who introduces her to the movement by suffragettes and the concept that women should have equal rights.
Candace