BOOK ñ Caty A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene Brown Thrasher Books Brown Thrasher Ç John F. Stegeman
Family life in the cruel circumstances of war of shouldering in the absence of her husband the financial responsibilities and burdens usually reserved for menAlthough many of Caty’s concerns reflected those of other women of her time her story Harvey Jackson suggests in his forward has importance even beyond the study of women in the years surrounding the Revolution Caty witnessed and at times participated in some of the most crucial events in the history of the new nation and her story adds an additional degree of definition to our knowledge of our national origi
John F. Stegeman Ç Caty A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene Brown Thrasher Books Brown Thrasher KINDLE
Caty A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene Brown Thrasher Books Brown ThrasherEn to that of women Caty courted gossip and near scandal as she unlike most of the women of her time maintained friendships with men most of whom were friends of her husband Indeed Nathanael Greene encouraged Caty to join in the political discussions he and his friends enjoyed and at such gatherings Caty found herself at the center of the tumultuous activity of the RevolutionCaty also came to know firsthand the effects of the political discussions As a devoted wife and the mother of five children Caty faced the challenges of trying to maintain a semblance of normal