Fly Twice Backward: Fresh Starts in Times of Troubles
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You wake back in early adolescence, adult memories intact, including ones that could make you very wealthy and influential as you age back. Your birth family is here, alive again, though your later families are gone, perhaps forever. But what has happened, what can you do, about looming concerns like corruption, ignorance, abuse, pollution, disease, and global warming?
Far Beyond Woman Suffrage: The Prices of the Vote
Mercy Martin has an inside view of the epic battle for woman suffrage. As a young, maturing adult, she has an inside role in the campaign, knowing the key players and seeing the problems with the struggle. This is an intimate view via alternative historical fiction, as accurate as it can be and as thoughtful and moving as it must be. Mercy moves from a suffragist jail cell to the national campaign for the woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution, on to Tennessee's roads and cities and the final battleground in the state legislature. Read this for very personal view of a momentous event. Why should something so obviously right have been so hard, and why did bitter compromises have to be made? Mercy is in the middle of it, and along the way, she acquires a husband, baby , and better parents than she was born with. In this first novella of a series, Mercy prepares for a vital role in the coming civil rights struggles. In this first novel of a series, Mercy prepares for a vital role in the coming civil rights struggles.
Far Beyond Woman Suffrage: Testing the Limits
Due out by 2/2/23
The vote at last is won for women, so what’s next for our suffragist? In the Far Beyond Woman Suffrage series, this second novelette follows Mercy Martin Hamblin testing what women can do now and where she should throw her efforts. She’s started at the University of Tennessee to prepare for teaching social studies. Still, she’s plagued by the women and men of color left behind in the push, letting bigots decide what “local conditions” will permit via Jim Crow.
Far Beyond Woman Suffrage: Testing the Limits
In the previous volume, a young woman was jailed for incidentally being at a suffrage rally and was left pregnant as a result of a police rape. Mercy's minister father refused to let her stay in his rectory unless she agreed to give up the baby for adoption, but her nurse grandmother took her in and delivered the baby, ultimately going with her to Tennessee to help with the baby for the final battle of the fight for the amendment for the suffrage. Now Mercy is continuing onward, starting at the University of Tennessee, which had only recently begun accepting women.
