The Friendly Persuasion

The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West.[1] It was adapted as the motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956.[2] In 1969, West published a sequel, Except for Me and Thee, that included more stories of the Birdwells. The book consists of a series of vignettes about a Quaker family,[3] the Birdwells, living in southern Indiana[1] "near the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row." [4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Prescott, Orville (14 November 1945) "Books of the Times; Stories of a Quaker Family A Good Anthology About the Horse" The New York Times page 17, article preview
  2. ^ Crowther, Bosley (2 November 1956) "Screen: 'Friendly Persuasion' Persuasive Film; Story of Quakers Is at the Music Hall Civil War Indiana Is Setting for Tale" The New York Times page 30, article preview
  3. ^ Melcher, Marguerite F. (25 November 1945) "Quaker Memory-Book From the Banks of the Muscatatuck" The New York Times Book Review article preview
  4. ^ West Jessamyn (1945) Friendly Persuasion Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, page 3, OCLC 290502