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BANISHED LOVE
Free-Spirited…
Clarissa Sullivan dreams for more from life than sipping tepid tea
in stifling parlors in Victorian Boston. She defies her family’s wishes,
continuing to teach poor immigrant children in Boston’s West End, finding a
much-needed purpose to her life.
Radical…
As a suffragette, Clarissa is considered a firebrand radical no
man would desire. For why should women want the vote when men have sheltered
women from the distasteful aspects of politics and law?
Determined…
When love blossoms between Clarissa and Gabriel McLeod, a
struggling cabinetmaker, her family objects. Clarissa’s love and determination
will be tested as she faces class prejudices, manipulative family members and
social convention in order to live the life she desires with the man she loves.
Will she succeed? Or will she yield to expectations?'
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Ramona Flightner is a native of Missoula, Montana. After graduating from Tufts University
with a B.A. in Spanish, she earned a Masters degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Montana. Her Master’s thesis, Chilean Testimonial Literature: the collective suffering of a people, highlighted her continued interest in the stories of those who were at risk of being forgotten or silenced.
And an excerpt from BANISHED LOVE...
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ABOUT RAMONA...
Ramona Flightner is a native of Missoula, Montana. After graduating from Tufts University with a B.A. in Spanish, she earned a Masters degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Montana. Her Master’s thesis, Chilean Testimonial Literature: the collective suffering of a people, highlighted her continued interest in the stories of those who were at risk of being forgotten or silenced.
She studied nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a Master’s in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She has worked for ten years as a family nurse practitioner providing care to the poor and under insured at two community health centers, first in Wilmington, Delaware and now in Boston, Massachusetts.
An avid reader, she began writing three years ago. She enjoys the demands of research and relishes the small discoveries that give historical detail to her books.
Ramona is an avid flyfisher and hiker who enjoys nothing better than spending a day on a remote Montana river, far from a city. She enjoys research, travel, storytelling, learning about new cultures and discovering new ways of looking at the world. Though she resides in Boston, Massachusetts, Ramona remains a Montanan at heart.
Her dreams are to see the plains of East Africa, marvel at the wonder of Petra in Jordan, soak in the seas of the South Pacific, and to continue to spend as much time as possible with her family.
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Find out more about Ramona and her books at her Website, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest
And an excerpt from BANISHED LOVE...
BANISHED LOVE follows Clarissa Sullivan on her journey of
self-discovery as she learns what she cannot live without.
“You’ve known my beliefs for some
time,” I croaked out.
“A schoolgirl’s idealism,” she
snapped. “Nothing to be acted on.”
Mrs. Chickering cleared her throat,
as though to remind Mrs. Smythe she remained present. “I think it takes a
tremendous strength of character to have beliefs and then actually act on
them,” she said with her own fervor. “I would hate for women to lock away their
desires for a better world once they leave school or marry. They, as women,
have lives, have hopes and dreams for the future, independent of what a man
might want.”
“How dare you come into my house and
tell me that what I have is not sufficient?” Mrs. Smythe gasped.
“I am saying no such thing, Mrs.
Sullivan,” Mrs. Chickering replied. “I believe you need to understand that your
stepdaughter has beliefs and aspirations that are different from yours.”
“Aspirations that include the vote?”
Mrs. Smythe scoffed. “Men have voted in the past, they will continue to vote,
and I have no desire of it. I feel as my husband does on all things to do with
politics, so it would only be giving the same politician two votes rather than
one. There’s no purpose to women having the vote.” Her eyes flashed, true
enmity in their depths as she glared at Mrs. Chickering. “And didn’t we women
of Massachusetts show you suffragettes we didn’t want the vote in’95? No one
voted for women to become enfranchised then, and they won’t now.” She sighed
loudly, as though trying to calm herself.
“An aspiration for independence?”
Mrs. Smythe continued, unable to stop speaking. “Are you telling me that
someday it should be lauded, hoped for, that young women become independent and
have no need for marriage? No need for children? How could that ever be a
hoped-for future? You and your group want too much for women. Women should
focus on their home, on creating a moral, upstanding environment in which to
raise children. She will want for nothing if she has such a home,” Mrs. Smythe
argued.
“So I suppose women should remain
tied to the kitchen stove with children at their ankles, and a husband who
might, or might not, come home with a paycheck as their only recourse?” Mrs.
Chickering countered. “Relying on the benevolence of men to write laws and
enforce them without women having any involvement in the legislative process?
Sitting at home knitting, hoping that men will ensure that our rights are
protected? That is all you envision for women? Nothing more?”
“It has been enough for generations.
I do not know why it should need to change now,” Mrs. Smythe snapped, banging
down her teacup with such force I thought she might crack it.
“Was that enough for you in your
first marriage, Mrs. Sullivan?” Mrs. Chickering asked, pinning her with an
intense gaze.
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