Grenell 1881: A Novel
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Publisher Description
Sixteen-year-old Marguerite Hartranft, the boldest of three sisters in a well-bred West Philadelphia family, balks when her mother tells her, "You do not need to understand. You need only to listen and obey." Marguerite has a passion for learning and questioning everything. When she thinks her parents plan to send her to a convent, she runs away to Thousand Islands, New York. She spends the summer tent camping on the north shore of Grenell Island. There she meets like-minded women, learns how to take care of herself and falls deeply in love with island life.
Grenell 1881 is the first book of the Thousand Islands Series, which give readers a peek at summer life in the Thousand Islands from 1881 until 1961.
Customer Reviews
Outstanding!!
Visited the Clayton Boat Museum, in the Thousand Islands and saw this book series and it fascinated me. Not wanting to have more hard copies I was so happy to come across this digitally. I feel so immersed in the setting because of how descriptive the author is. I feel the coolness and the blueness of the river as I read; I feel like I’m transported back in time and am experiencing 1881 just like Marguerite, both it’s good and bad. I also wish I could rusticate as she did for the whole summer at Grenell Island in the Thousand Islands.