Jessamyn West

The Friendly Persuasion

Novel of a Quaker family in rural Indiana during the Civil War

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Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West was a Quaker California novelist whose The Friendly Persuasion lovingly depicted nineteenth-century Indiana Quaker life. Her memoir The Woman Said Yes confronted her own cancer and her sister's euthanasia with characteristic honesty.

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