Suffer and Grow Strong by Carolyn Curry
Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas was an intelligent, spirited woman born in 1834 to one of the wealthiest families in Georgia. She kept a diary for forty-one years of her life before, during, and after the Civil War filled thirteen hand-written volumes with 450,000 words. Her father recognised her love of learning and sent her to the first college for women in America, Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia. After college graduation in 1851, she married her Princeton-educated husband in 1852. With the coming of the Civil War and its aftermath, her life changed forever. Thomas experienced loss of wealth, bankruptcy, the death of loved ones, serious illness, and devastating family strife. She gave birth to ten children and saw four of them die. In 1893, Thomas left Augusta and moved to Atlanta where she became active in the Women’s Christian Union and the Suffrage Movement. In 1899 she was elected president of the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association.
Carolyn Curry holds a BA in English from Agnes Scott College and MA and PhD degrees in History from Georgia State University. She has taught at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta and The University of Kentucky. Curry is the founder and chair of Women Alone Together, a non-profit foundation created to meet the needs of women who are alone in our culture. The well-being of women past and present has been her lifelong passion. Curry resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780881464740 |
| ISBN 10 | 0881464740 |
| Title | Suffer and Grow Strong |
| Author | Carolyn Curry |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Mercer University Press |
| Year published | 2014-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Prizes | Commended for IndieFab awards (Biography) 2014 |
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