Celia Garth - (Rediscovered Classics) by Gwen Bristow (Paperback)

About the Book

Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the eyes of a heroine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict, this 1959 novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as she transforms from a fashionable dressmaker to a patriot spy.

Book Synopsis

Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the eyes of a heroine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict, this novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as she transforms from a fashionable dressmaker to a patriot spy. When the king's army captures Charleston and sweeps through the Carolina countryside in a wave of blood, fire, and debauchery, the rebel cause seems all but lost. But when Francis Marion, a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army known as "The Swamp Fox," recruits Celia as a spy, the tides of war begin to shift. This classic historical novel captures the fervor of 18th-century Charleston, the American Revolution, and a woman who risked her life for the patriot cause.

Review Quotes

"Historical romance with all the thrills . . . it also gives a vivid sense of the historical personages and events of the time. . . . Gwen Bristow is a skillful story-teller." --New York Herald Tribune Book Review

"If ever a book had 'best seller' corpuscles in its blood this is it. . . . It is an exciting tale of love and war. . . . The novel is in the tradition of Gone with the Wind--filled with throbbing details of each day's terrors, thrills, threats and, when they came, triumphs. . . . The kind of story that keeps readers tingling." --Fanny Butcher, Chicago Tribune

"Rebel blue, Tory green, and King George's hated red flash brightly through this embattled tale of Gwen Bristow's native South Carolina . . . Miss Bristow uses thrills, surprise, and melodrama to personalize the Revolution and impart a tingling sense of shared experience in this book . . . the author of This Side of Glory and Jubilee Trail is once again at the top of her form." --The New York Times

About the Author

Gwen Bristow was the author of Calico Palace, Golden Dreams, Jubilee Trail, This Side of Glory, and Tomorrow Is Forever. Sara Donati is the author of Dawn on a Distant Shore, Fire Along the Sky, Into the Wilderness, Lake in the Clouds, and Queen of Swords.