The invention of wings, Sue Monk Kidd
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The invention of wings, Sue Monk Kidd
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eng
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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fiction
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The invention of wings
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Sue Monk Kidd
Summary
The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid, and follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), the author allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined
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- Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 -- Fiction
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- Slaves -- Fiction
- Women's rights -- Fiction
- Antislavery movements -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Feminists -- South Carolina -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
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- Subject12
- Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 -- Fiction
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- Slaves -- Fiction
- Women's rights -- Fiction
- Antislavery movements -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Feminists -- South Carolina -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Content1
- Author1