Jessamyn West: Works

A collection of 38 previously published stories by this master storyteller.

Cress Delahanty remains one of the most intrepid and beloved teenagers in all American literature.

Further adventures of Jess and Eliza Birdwell, the beloved hero and heroine of The Friendly Persuasion.

A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community.

This is a powerful portrait of Orpha Chase, a writer whose blissfully sentimental books contrast acutely with her own difficult life.

A dramatic, sweeping saga of life on the Indiana frontier in 1824, based on actual historical events. The Fall Creek Massacre was a unique occurrence-the first recorded instance of whites being formally charged with murder for killing Indians.

Reviewing her personal journals and letters she had written to her parents fifty years ago, the author recalls her trips to England and Ireland and what travel taught her about herself.

The author's remarkable investigation of love from a woman's point of view.

An Opera Based on an Original Conception of Raoul Pene duBois for Portraying the Life of Audubon in a Musical Drama.

This book contains over 60 extracts from the writings of members of the Religious Society of Friends from 1650 to 1962.

An outgrowth of the author's journal kept when she was spending part of her time at home in Napa, Calif., and part of it in Hollywood as a script writer.

In a memoir filled with compassion and deep resolve, West celebrates the lives of three women - her strong Quaker mother, her beloved and courageous sister, and herself - and gives personal insight into her own battle to survive tuberculosis.