The Beulah Quintet | The Beulah Quintet

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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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