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Gwen Bristow. From "Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the eyes of a heroine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict, this novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as she transforms from a fashionable dressmaker to a patriot spy. When the king's army captures Charleston and sweeps through the ...
May 20, 2014 · Gwen Bristow (1903–1980), the author of seven bestselling historical novels that bring to life momentous events in American history, such as the siege of Charleston during the American Revolution (Celia Garth) and the great California gold rush (Calico Palace), was born in South Carolina, where the Bristow family had settled in the seventeenth century.
BRISTOW, Gwen. Born 16 September 1903, Marion, South Carolina; died August 1980. Daughter of Louis Judson and Caroline Winkler Bristow; married Bruce Manning, 1929. From childhood, Gwen Bristow intended to be a writer; her first story was written when she was six and her first appearance in print came when she was twelve.
Gwen Bristow (1903–1980), the author of seven bestselling historical novels that bring to life momentous events in American history, such as the siege of Charleston during the American Revolution (Celia Garth) and the great California gold rush (Calico Palace), was born in South Carolina, where the Bristow family had settled in the seventeenth century.
Gwen Bristow was born in Marion, South Carolina in 1903, and Bruce Manning in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1902. In 1924, following Bristow’s graduation from Judson College, her parents moved to New Orleans. In the late 1920s, Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, both Louisiana journalists at that point, met and married.
Published in the late 1930s by New York Times–bestselling author Gwen Bristow, the Plantation Trilogy is an epic series of novels that bring to life the history of Louisiana—from its settlement in the late eighteenth century to the realities of slavery and poverty to the post–World War I era—via the intertwined lives of the members of three the Sheramys, the Larnes, and the Upjohns.
Gwen Bristow is one of my favorite authors. As a teen, I devoured her American historical fiction and loved it and re-read those books many times. I saw this book on ABE Books, which I didn't know existed, so ordered it. I didn't realize it was a real history of the California Gold Rush and California being granted statehood.
