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Celia Garth: A Story of Charleston in the Revolution

Record Added: 9/25/2013
Author Gwen Bristow
Setting United States
Topic Historical Fiction
 History: American Revolut
Publisher Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
ISBN 0690183488   Year 1959
Age Adult   Pages 320
Description Light printed dustjacket
 
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 Carolina countryside in a wave of blood, fire, and debauchery, the rebel cause seems all but lost.

But when Francis Marion, a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army known as "The Swamp Fox," recruits Celia as a spy, the tides of war begin to shift. This classic historical novel captures the fervor of 18th-century Charleston, the American Revolution, and a woman who risked her life for the patriot cause.
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