The mistress of the plantation in the cruel Anne-May, who is an all-around despicable person. Then there's Jemma, who is an enslaved woman working on a tobacco plantation in Maryland. However, prejudices against women are still running rampant in medicine and this becomes even more apparent to Georgy when she is at a battlefield hospital. Elizabeth Blackwell who is the first female to graduate from medical school. She gets the opportunity to study with Dr. First up, there's Georgy, who comes from a family of abolitionists, and wants to do something meaningful with her life, so she is determined to become a nurse.
There's three main characters in Sunflower Sisters and each woman brings something different to this memorable Civil War tale. It's a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty, a story still so relevant today." Inspired by true accounts, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid, detailed look at the Civil War experience, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations, to a war-torn New York City to the horrors of the battlefield. In charge of the household, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves. Anne-May is left behind to run Peeler Plantation when her husband joins the Union Army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escape-but only by abandoning the family she loves. Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father.
In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. So when the war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women a bother on the battlefront.
Georgeanne "Georgey" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and demure attitudes of women of her stature. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of her ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse who joins the war effort during the Civil War, and how her calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Ann-May Wilson, a southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. Goodreads says, " Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist who helped young girls released from Ravensbruck concentration camp.
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