Susan Signe Morrison: 3 books
Home Front Girl
A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Kept from the early 1930s through the mid-1940s by a young Chicagoan, this diary provides a fascinating, detailed record of the life of an astute and witty teenage girl during the Great Depression and the lead-up to World War II. The only daughter of a working-class Swedish immigrant and his wife,...
A Medieval Woman's Companion
Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous...
Grendel’s Mother
The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
An amber bead. A gold and glass drinking horn. A ring engraved with Thor’s hammer – all artifacts from a Germanic tribe that carved a space for itself through brutality and violence on a windswept land . Brimhild weaves peace and conveys culture to the kingdom, until the secret of her birth threatens...