Author : Linda Tilson Davis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530786442
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Book Synopsis Jeannie's Journey by : Linda Tilson Davis
Download or read book Jeannie's Journey written by Linda Tilson Davis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the mid-Victorian era, Jeannie Fox shuns her Quaker heritage to take an unusual, circuitous journey through life. Her ambition to become a teacher is realized but societal norms and laws force her to give up teaching when she marries. After having two children she begins to question her obligations and rights as a wife and joins a religious-scientific cult and commune in Chicago in part to escape her uncomfortable marriage. When she is threatened with losing her daughters, she leaves the commune and resumes her career as a teacher but maintains allegiance to the cult leader and his followers. A temptation to rejoin the commune is not as strong as the attraction to move to Oregon's Hood River Valley and become a fruit rancher. Relations become stressed with her oldest daughter over her younger sister's choice of a husband and lifestyle. A life-long dream to take a world tour turns into tragedy forcing her home prematurely to face the consequences and the remainder of her life.