The Beulah Quintet (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Lee Settle
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: , 1634-1649; , 1754-1774; , 1837-1861; , June 7, 1912; , 1978-1980
- Setting: England, Virginia, and the western frontier of Virginia, later the state of West Virginia
- Principal Characters: Jonathan Church, Thankful Perkins, Gideon MacKarkle, Nell Cockburn Lacy, Oliver Cromwell, Hannah Bridewell, Jeremiah Catlett, “Squire” Josiah Devotion Raglan, Jonathan Lacey, Sally Lacey, Jarcey Pentacost, Ezekiel Catlett, Sara Lacey, Johnny Catlett, Peregrine Lacey Catlett, Leah Catlett, Lewis Catlett, Melinda Lacey, Brandon Lacey, Sally Lacey, Sara Lacey, Annie Brandon, Big Dan O’Neill, Lily Ellen Lacey, Beverley Lacey, Ann Eldridge Lacey, Mary Rose Lacey, Ann Althea Lacey, Jake Catlett, Captain Daniel Chester Neill, Annunziata Pagano, Eduardo (Eddie) Pagano, Carlo Michele, Neville Roundtree, Hannah McKarkle, Johnny McKarkle, Kitty Puss Baseheart, Charlie Bland, Thelma Leftwich, Ann Althea Lacey Niell, Jake Catlett
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Class conflict, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, War, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century
- Locales: Virginia, England
The Beulah Quintet has had a complicated genesis. At first, Mary Lee Settle projected a trilogy set in what is now West Virginia. She published the eighteenth century story O Beulah Land in 1956, followed in 1960 by a novel taking descendants of the characters in the earlier work up to the Civil War. After Know Nothing came a contemporary novel entitled Fight Night on a Sweet Saturday (1964). Settle was not happy with the published version of the third novel, however, and furthermore, she wished to take her story back another century in time, as well as across the...
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