A SEA ISLAND LADY

by Francis Griswold ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A fine novel of the South -- but much longer than is warranted. In the span of 900 odd pages is told the story of a ""Yankee"" who marries a sea captain and comes to live on a ""sea island"" off the coast of South Carolina, before the Civil War. He turns carpetbagger, and little by little she turns against the North in their handling of the defeated South. After his death she marries a Southerner, meets, head up, the dislike of her new relatives, of the community, works with the Negroes in trying to rehabilitate them and give them something to go on. She lives on, making mistakes but proving herself ""a sea island lady"" and, in her old age, when the crash and disaster rob her of everything she holds dear, she rebuilds a life through her grand-children. It is a good portrait, with body and spirit; but it is another of these meaty panoramic novels that somehow doesn't quite come off.

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Publisher: Morrow

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1939

Categories: FICTION