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Nancy Webb
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Literary Fiction, Womens Fiction, Historical Fiction, Western
Author Nancy Stanfield Webb is a writer, painter, and photographer who has devoted three decades to researching and writing the two-part biographical fiction series on Sarah Ridge. The great-granddaughter of Texas pioneers and now living in Rhode Island, Webb's essays and interview articles with visual artists have been published in Southwest Art magazine and various regional magazines. She is an associate member of Western Writers of America and is the recipient of a writing residency to Millay Colony for the Arts. The author of Book One 1812-1848 of A Woman of Marked Character, in Book Two 1848-1891, Webb concludes the series.
Nancy Webb's books
A Woman of Marked Character-The Imagined Portrait of Sarah Ridge Paschal Pix 1812-1891, Book One 1812-1848
In this intensely researched biographical novel set in Georgia and Indian Territory, Sarah Ridge, the educated daughter of a Cherokee tribal leader, witnesses events leading to the removal of her nation to west of the Mississippi River in 1837. Braving a treacherous river journey with her husband, they arrive in Arkansas, where she bears five children and buries two. When tribal war erupts following the "Trail of Tears," Sarah is compelled to seek revenge against powerful forces in the Cherokee Nation.
A Woman of Marked Character - The Imagined Portrait of Sarah Ridge Paschal Pix 1812-1891, Book Two 1848-1891
Set in antebellum Galveston, Texas, and later across the bay on an isolated coastal cattle ranch, this sweeping biographical historical novel concludes Cherokee Sarah Ridge's emotional story of her love of family and perseverance through tragedies.