Barbara N Mclennan: 3 books

Nominated for a literary award by the Library of Virginia for 2016, The Wealth of Virginia  received the following review from Kirkus: "McLennan’s historical novel depicts America at a tenuous stage in its early history, when wealth, violence and political unease were all starting to...

Blackbeard and his fleet sail the Atlantic coast and Caribbean capturing many ships and enriching themselves.  Andrew Morgan from Virginia, Blackbeard’s gunner, invests his shares with a banker in Philadelphia. Andrew visits friends in Virginia and agrees to bring along young Benjamin Harrison...

The history of Virginia reflects the character and goals of the people who lived there, including the women who often ran the plantations and made the deals that became the foundation of the wealth and the basis of the laws. William Roscoe, young Virginia planter and sheriff, and Sarah Harrison, daughter...