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Amy Belding Brown

Emily’s House

By Amy Belding Brown - Published 2021

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Vermont-based author Brown (Flight of the Sparrow; Mr. Emerson’s Wife) sets her latest novel in 19th-century Amherst, Massachusetts. Center stage: a big ...Read Review

Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America

By Amy Belding Brown - Published 2014 Published 2014-07-01

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In 1676, Mary Rowlandson finds herself face to face with the enemy. Her village is burnt to the ground in an Indian raid, and ...Read Review

Mr. Emerson’s Wife

By Amy Belding Brown - Published 2005

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Biographical Fiction

Lidian (née Lydia) Jackson is thirty-three years old when she first meets Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1835. A strong-willed and intelligent woman, Lidian ...Read Review