Goodbye, Miss Emily by George, Martha Sibley

Goodbye, Miss Emily (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781503246959)

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Goodbye, Miss Emily by George, Martha Sibley

Goodbye, Miss Emily

$12.95
Goodbye, Miss Emily by George, Martha Sibley

Goodbye, Miss Emily

$12.95
Format: Paperback
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Morgan Bigley, a well-to-do Southern lawyer, is left with two young daughters to raise after his wife, Emily, is killed in an automobile accident in 1934. With the help of a new housekeeper, Miss Mattie, and a loving nurse, Viola, he attempts to bring the girls up according to the standards of the old South. Josy, the older girl, is a gutsy beauty who shares her father's love of the outdoor life. Agnes, the younger daughter, is a born iconoclast whose questions roil the certainties of Morgan's traditional values. In the process of healing, Morgan strives to regain the happy, easy-going life-style to which he and his family were accustomed before Emily's death. He meets and falls in love with Theodosia, a vivacious and progressive actress whom his daughters adore. Theodosia has family in Germany, and the darkness that has overtaken that country with Hitler's rise to power is of immediate concern to her. A war in Europe and a changing South are a backdrop to the unfolding story as the Bigleys traverse serious obstacles outwardly, while their inner landscapes evolve and deepen.

Author: Martha Sibley George
ISBN-10: 1503246957
ISBN-13: 9781503246959
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2014
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2015
By Martha Sibley George
By Martha Sibley George
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Martha Sibley George was born in Atlanta, Georgia in the days when that city's population numbered about 300,000, and the term, the New South, was still an incipient dream. She spent her formative years reading constantly, avoiding her homework, and riding horses on her father's farm. When she was eighteen, she attended a two-year college specifically tailored for academically disinclined girls. Her education took a bump up when she received a B. A. from Oglethorpe University, and later, an M.A. from Long Island University. In 1953, she met and married a gentleman from Brooklyn and moved to New York where her children were raised. When her husband retired, the couple moved to Longboat Key, Florida, and later, to Sarasota where, in what seems to her a blink of an eye, she finds herself an old, widowed lady who writes.

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