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Herstories: Twelve Generations of Women Speak, 1621- 1986 is a 75,000-word work of historical fiction in which the author's actual female ancestors provide the basis for twelve characters: mothers and daughters who create and pass down a journal of family history from generation to generation. The records of these women's lives supply the framework of names, dates, spouses, and places around which a narrative spanning 350 years was created. The book's premise makes possible a recounting of American history from the perspectives of ordinary women whose families are central to their lives and whose gender roles place severe limitations on their participation in society. Thus a strong feminist message naturally underlies the women's chronicling of their lives in the context of history. The work is timely in that it extols our democracy by celebrating the ordinary, courageous people who formed this country. Current cultural interest in genealogy increases the novel's appeal.

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""What you wrote is important and beautifully done - and strangely timely."" - Karen Fisher, writing consultant and author of A Sudden Country

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Priscilla Wilson received her B.A. in English from Auburn University in 1972. After a brief stint as a high school English teacher, she became an artist working with gourds, graphic design, and clay; but she took writing as an avocation, penning newspaper columns, essays, and a self-published memoir called Gourd Girls. With Janice Lymburner, her wife of 50 years, she owns The Gourd Place, a gallery in the mountains of northeast Georgia.Herstories is Priscilla's first novel and the result of a longtime search for her voice as a fiction writer.

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