Re: Trying to identify a saga

On 11 Nov 2003 17:29:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn Harper)
wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm a librarian trying to identify a historical fiction saga for a
>customer, so far with no luck. So, I'm seeking help here.
>
>The cutosmer cannot recall either the author or the titles, although
>she knows that the author was a woman.
>
>Here's what else we know:
>
>- she read the books many years ago in the large print format
>- the series was more than a triology
>- it followed the story of several generations of women in a family
>- the women were Anglo-American (it was set in America)
>- the story started around the 1700s and finished around WW2
>- the main theme of the books revolved around family life
>- they were small town folk
>
>That's all I have to go on and my reference books here aren't coming
>up with satisfactory results.

If you've eliminated some possibilities, may we know which?


Might have been the Elswyth Thane Williamsburg novels.  Many  did
follow the women, and most of them had the action centering around
Williamsburg.  And they went from the Revolutionary War into WWII.
There was usually at least one guy who was a war correspondent for
whatever war that era was having:  Revolution, Civil,
Spanish-American, WWI, WWII.  And there were some set between wars.
There were seven books, I think.  

I don't remember them concentrating on family life in particular,
though.

Does your customer remember any names from the series she's looking
for? If she does it might jog someone's memory.   I remember Julian
(male) St. John, Rowena, Tibby (that bunch from the Revolutionary
War)... Cabot and his Eden, Bracken who loved Dinah, Bracken's sister
Virginia who married an English nobleman.... a cousin who was a
musician (Civil war and S-A War) who married Gwen the music hall
performer... Phoebe the writer who was on the Lusitania....


Some libraries file the author as 'Beebe", not Thane.



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Elaine Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>