Thane centers her novel around four major characters: the Aristrocratic St. In it, Colonial Williamsburg comes alive. Dawn's Early Light is the first novel in the series. We watch the cat-and-mouse game between Cornwallis and Lafayette, which ended in Cornwallis’s unlucky stand at Yorktown.ĭawn’s Early Light is the human story behind our first war for liberty, and of the men and women loving and laughing through it to the dawn of a better world.Elswyth Thane is best known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 19 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II.
We penetrate to the swamp-encircled camp which was Marion’s stronghold on the Peedee. We see de Kalb’s gallant death under a cavalry charge at Camden. John Sprague, who becomes George Washington’s aide Regina Greensleeves, a Virginia beauty spoiled by a season in London Julian Day, a young schoolmaster who arrives from England on the eve of the war and initially thinks of himself as a Tory and Tibby Mawes, one of his less fortunate pupils, saddled with an alcoholic father and an indigent mother.īut we also see Washington, Jefferson, Lafayette, Greene, Patrick Henry, Francis Marion, and the rest of that brilliant galaxy playing their roles not as historical figures but as men.
Dawn’s Early Light is the first novel in the series.
Elswyth Thane is best known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 19 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II.
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