Böcker av Elizabeth Dubois

The Louisa series follows the journal of affluent, educated 19-year-old Louisa Wilton from when she leaves South Carolina through her years in pioneer Alabama. Covering pre-statehood 1818 until Reconstruction 1877, the series is based upon the life of the author's ancestress. Drawing upon writings of Louisa's husband and numerous other documents (some unpublished), Elizabeth DuBois incorporates timeless issues of slavery, the treatment of indigenous people and a spirituality gently critical of organized religion. Ultimately, Louisa's sometimes unconventional but heart-warming romance sees her through periods of doubt and depression. In this third book of the series, Louisa continues her journal entries describing domestic life and spiritual enlightenment. She follows her secret passion of writing fiction, leaving us to wonder: will she ever relent and allow others into her interior life?Laugh, cry, ruminate. This volume will tug at your emotions while raising questions worth considering.

For some, settlement of the United States frontier can be reduced to a mere footnote. For Louisa Wilton, a young South Carolina debutante, a journey to the Alabama Territory in 1818 meant leaving behind civility and enlightenment. In this second installment of the Louisa saga that began with Louisa: The Wilds of Alabama, the heroine continues to pen her thoughts and feelings in her journal. Readers lean over her shoulder and watch as Louisa meshes fact and fiction so seamlessly, it is hard to separate the two. Written in the style of a true genteel Southern lady, this tale continues to follow Louisa in her first several years in Alabama. Young Louisa's penchant for fictionalizing and enhancing the events of her actual life lands her in hot water more than once. Can Louisa separate real life from her imagined world? Only time, and our continued voyeurism, will tell.