The Good Wife: A Road Opens Westward and a Frightening Past Is Left Behind - Softcover

Butler, Mary Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403369321 ISBN 13: 9781403369321

Publisher: Authorhouse, 2003

Synopsis

A handsome patent medicine peddler steals the heart of a young Virginia girl intent on breaking 19th century constraints that anchor women to home and hearth. But when a diamond and pearl ring links him to two violent crimes, sending him to jail, the devastated Lizzie leaves Baltimore and returns to her family.She marries a steady man for whom the Ohio frontier beckons. They leave a comfortable Maryland home to travel over the new National Road funded in 1806 by the Federal Government to encourage trade and settlement in the west. With hard work and terrible losses they finally establish a backwoods homestead in the new state.But when Lizzie's first love, the formidable, though ever charming, Edward reappears, his black bag of questionable medicines replaced by the tools of his new profession, Lizzie, now a comely matron of forty-six, is conflicted in ways she could never have imagined or anticipated.

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About the Author

Mary Anne Butler has been a journalist with a metropolitan newspaper in Michigan, a radio news reporter in Western Pennsylvania and a public relations executive with a national firm. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, and in an anthology published by Warner Books. In addition to researching the times and places appearing in her book, The Good Wife, she has lived in four towns along the National Road: Baltimore, Brownsville and Washington, Pennsylvania, as well as Zanesville, Ohio. A graduate of Penn State, she and her husband live in Tucson, Arizona.

Edition details

• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1403369321
• ISBN 13: 9781403369321
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 344