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Lemons In The Garden of Love

Author	Ames Sheldon

Lemons In The Garden of Love

Name: Lemons In The Garden of Love
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Ames Sheldon

An incredibly timely novel about reproductive freedom. Seeking a topic for her doctoral dissertation in 1977, on the way to her sister’s shotgun wedding, Cassie Lyman finds a trove of suffrage cartoons, diaries, and letters belonging to Kate Easton, founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts. She soon discovers that she and Kate are closely related and their lives start to parallel each other. Booklife Reviews said, “Sheldon’s evocative prose and compelling sense of the sweep of history grabs attention from page obne.

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Categories: Book, Century fox, Historical Fiction Tags: Marriage & Divorce Fiction, Women's Divorce Fiction, Women's Historical Fiction

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It’s 1977 and Cassie Lyman, a graduate student in women’s history, is struggling to find a topic for her doctoral dissertation. When she discovers a trove of drawings, suffrage cartoons, letters, and diaries at Smith College belonging to Kate Easton, founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts in 1916, she believes she has located her subject.

Digging deeper into Kate’s life, Cassie learns that she and Kate are related—closely. Driven to understand why her family has never spoken of Kate, Cassie travels to Cape Ann to attend her sister’s shotgun wedding, where she questions her female relatives about Kate—only to find herself soon afterward in the same challenging situation Kate faced.

Ames Sheldon

At the age of nine while reading Stuart Little, I realized I wanted to be a writer, so I started writing stories. Many stories and poems later, I helped write and edit the ground-breaking WOMEN'S HISTORY SOURCES:A GUIDE TO ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES (R.R. Bowker, 1979). In the process of working on this monumental reference book, I discovered my love for women's history and using primary sources for research.

My novels ELEANOR'S WARS AND DON'T PUT THE BOATS AWAY reflect my fascination with the history of women in the U.S.

I have worked as a reporter for two small town newspapers and as a publicist for an auto salvage yard and an aluminum recycling business. Then I ventured into the area of creative nonfiction, writing grant proposals, reports, and solicitations for the Sierra Club, the University of St.Thomas, the Minnesota Historical Society, the University of Minnesota, and the Minneapolis Public Library.

Born and raised in Minneapolis, I have lived in Philadelphia, Boston, and San Francisco. Now I make my home in Eden Prairie, Minnesota with my husband.