Thy bruise is incurable,
and thy wound is grievous
(Jeremiah 30:12).
This was the heart-cry of Rachel Payne, my fictional exemplar of Great-great grandmother Margery Brown Rogers Clark, and all th...voir plusThy bruise is incurable,
and thy wound is grievous
(Jeremiah 30:12).
This was the heart-cry of Rachel Payne, my fictional exemplar of Great-great grandmother Margery Brown Rogers Clark, and all the women who fell victim to such humiliating loss. Rachel was compelled to deal with it the best way she could. And she did it by immersing herself into what she loved best—helping to restore the integrity and dignity of the Old South and its heroes who went down to their graves hopeless and helpless to vindicate the Cause. Rachel would not stop drinking from the well, her pen expressing heart and soul, until there remained nothing more to be written. Beyond that, there would always be an irredeemable love and devotion to the Confederacy and the Old South.
Jane Bennett Gaddy, author of House Not Made With Hands, The Mississippi Boys, Isaac’s House, JOAB, Rachel After the Darkness, and co-author of GIBBO-In My Life, is retired and lives with her husband in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She holds a Ph.D. in Religion and administers a course in American Literature and English Composition for external studies students of Bethany Divinity College and Seminary in Alabama.voir moins