Background
Settle, Mary Lee was born on July 29, 1918 in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Daughter of Joseph Edward and Rachel (Tompkins) Settle.
(In 1978 Hannah McKarkle returns to her hometown of Canona...)
In 1978 Hannah McKarkle returns to her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, where she sets out to remove the mystery that has surrounded her brother's murder for over 20 years. Her search for truth reveals a heritage that extends back to Johnny Church of Prisons, completing The Beulah Quintet.
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( The story of the Pony Express, which carried transconti...)
The story of the Pony Express, which carried transcontinental mail from April 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861, is one of the most invigorating and satisfying episodes in American history. Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga brings together a storehouse of information about this brilliant operation. Projected against an account of the historical background—the great overland mail issue, the freighting and the stagecoach business, the development of the telegraph and the Pacific railroad—is the narrative of the Pony Express's organization and the laying out of its route; biographical sketches of the founders, company personnel, and riders; and a list and description of the stations. While undertaking their exhaustive research, the authors collected some three hundred photographs, of which more than fifty of the best appear in this volume.
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(The novel that launched Settle's outstanding career, The ...)
The novel that launched Settle's outstanding career, The Love Eaters is an acid satire of bedroom and community tragedy. A wealthy, small-town theatrical group finds itself at the direction of a wheelchair-bound man whose designs extend beyond the stage. As he begins to lose control, so do his players, revealing appetites they scarcely knew that had. The Kiss of Kin, Settle's second and highly acclaimed novel, centers on the funeral, and last testament of Anna Mary Passmore. Drawn back to the Soutern homeplace, members of the Passmore clan-all of whom nurse visions that the matriarch's bequests will solve their problems-grapple with the various ties that bind them and with the disturbing appearance of an unexpected heir. Pulbished together for the first time, these novels offer compelling tales as well as a sample of Settle's early writing.
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(Set in the decades preceding the Civil War, this third vo...)
Set in the decades preceding the Civil War, this third volume of The Beulah Quintet - Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom - tells the tragic tale of Peregrine Catlett and his second son, Johnny. The year 1837 brings a host of perils to the verdant Virginia valley where Peregrine, a third-generation American, is the owner of Beulah. Amid financial panic, debate over the abolition of slavery, and mounting tension between North and South, Peregrine considers freeing his slaves but believes that, with his children scattered, his only hope of retaining his livelihood rests on the use of slave labor. Tied to the land by a special bond, Johnny returns to his father's farm but stays only until the outbreak of hostilities. As a Confederate soldier, Johnny is aware of the tragedy to come. But family ties outweigh convictions, and he ends up fighting in the war with disastrous results.
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(Mary Settle offers us an intimate portrait of a Turkey ra...)
Mary Settle offers us an intimate portrait of a Turkey rarely seen-a land where the cutting of a tree is a crime, where goats are sacrificed to launch state-of-the-art ships, and where whole towns emerge at dusk to stroll in the streets. She finds ancient monasteries converted into discos, underground cities carved out of rock, and sleek jet-set yachts alongside camels piled high with copper pots. She follows in the footsteps of emperors and nomads, sultans and shepherds; explores the trails blazed by Alexander the Great, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan, and Ataturk. "Turkish Reflections" is a cross-country odyssey into history, legend, mystery, and myth.
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(Complete set of five books in The Beulah Quintet by Mary ...)
Complete set of five books in The Beulah Quintet by Mary Lee Settle. An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom. Titles include Prisons, O Beulah Land, Know Nothing, The Scapegoat, and the Killing Ground.
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(Follows the odyssey of a young man's descendants as he le...)
Follows the odyssey of a young man's descendants as he leaves England in search of freedom and a better way of life.
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Settle, Mary Lee was born on July 29, 1918 in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Daughter of Joseph Edward and Rachel (Tompkins) Settle.
She attended Sweet Briar College for two years, then moved to New York City in pursuit of a career as an actress and model, and tested for the part of Scarlett O"Hara in Gone with the Wind.
During World World War II, she joined the British Women"s Auxiliary Air Force, and then the Office of War Information. She taught at Bard College, the Iowa Writers" hop, and University of Virginia. She lived for many years in Canada, in England, and in Turkey.
Settle is most famous for a series of novels called The Beulah Quintet (Prisons, O Beulah Land, Know Nothing, The Scapegoat, The Killing Ground), which cover the history of West Virginia.
She wrote several works of non-fiction. She died of lung cancer in Ivy, Virginia on September 27, 2005, aged 87, while writing her last book
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Served with Womens Auxiliary, Royal Air Force, 1942-1943.
Married Rodney Weathersbee, 1939 (divorced 1946). 1 child, Christopher Weathersbee. Married Douglas Newton, 1946 (divorced 1956).
Married William Littleton Tazewell, September 2, 1978.