The Mayflower Bride
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Mary Elizabeth sails on a voyage that seems doomed from the start
Mary Elizabeth Chapman boards the Speedwell in 1620 alongside her father and brother as Separatists seeking a better life in the New World.
William Lytton embarks on the Mayflower as a carpenter looking for opportunities to succeed—and he may have found one when a man from the Virginia Company offers William a hefty sum to keep a stealth eye on company interests in the new colony.
The season is far too late for good sailing and storms rage, but reaching land may be no better as food is scarce and the people are weak.
Will Mary Elizabeth survive to face the spring planting and unknown natives? Will William be branded a traitor and expelled?
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8 primary booksThe Daughters of the Mayflower is a 8-book series with 8 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Kimberley Woodhouse, Kathleen Y'Barbo, and 2 others.
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Originally posted on Creative Madness Mama.Years ago, I started reading an incredible series for a review project including American' Dream, which includes four stories of girl-hood journeys in our American history. The first of which was called Sarah's New World which was a story of a young girl's journey on the Mayflower across the great ocean to the shores of the colonies. As I started into turning the pages upon The Mayflower Bride, my mind was sent back to how I enjoyed reading Sarah's New World years ago. I actually even retrieved the book from my shelf and handed it to my eight year old advanced reader and said here, have a fun read for school. Her eyes lit up as she knew she was going on an adventure and one to share with me as I read my book and she read hers. The entire Sisters in Time series is available on Kindle as eBooks (both as the reprint omnibus and single story editions) and I truly hope to collect them all for my girls to read in their homeschool studies.
While, I'm familiar with the name of Kimberley Woodhouse and know I've got here with a Tracie Peterson book around here somewhere, this is the first time that I have really dived into a book of her own solo. I'm always nervous when it comes to introducing myself to a new-to-me author of Christian Historical Fiction and intrigued at the same time.
In my own genealogical history, I know that we have claim to members of ancestry being on the Mayflower and so on of ships. We've been on the American continent for ages, and perhaps it is because of this that I often find these books of Christian Historical Fiction of special interest. This story is about a girl, a young woman with quite the spirit and personality, her name is Mary Elizabeth. And then, of course, a young man of a rough past, William.
Reading this story, coming in with my own knowledge and attention to detail, it is apparent that Kimberley Woodhouse has indeed done her research and provided a vivid tale of the times. The opening notes really set the background and while I'll read this series for fun as that is the kind of person I am, I fully intend to set these aside to be a feature in our high school studies as I bring my girls back around to study to earliest in American history days once again. This is a great book for a read, as well as a good resource for homeschool living literature.
This review was originally posted on Creative Madness Mama.
