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Suffer and Grow Strong - The Life of Ella gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1834-1907 (Paperback)
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Suffer and Grow Strong - The Life of Ella gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1834-1907 (Paperback)
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Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas was an intelligent, spirited woman
born in 1834 to one of the wealthiest families in Georgia. At the
age of fourteen she began and kept a diary for forty-one years.
These diaries of her life before, during, and after the Civil War
filled thirteen hand-written volumes with 450,000 words. In the
early years she described her life of leisure and recorded the
books she read. Her father recognized her love of learning and sent
her to the first college for women in America, Wesleyan Female
College in Macon, Georgia. After college graduation in 1851, she
was a gay young girl of fashion who met and married her
Princeton-educated husband in 1852. However, with the coming of the
Civil War and its aftermath, her life changed forever. Thomas
experienced loss of wealth, bankruptcy, the death of loved ones,
serious illness, and devastating family strife. She gave birth to
ten children and saw four of them die. But, through it all, she
kept pouring thoughts into her diary. Thomas examined what was
happening, asked questions, and strived to find ways to improve her
family's dire economic straits. She started a school in her home
and later ran a boarding house out of the old family mansion. In
1893, Thomas left Augusta and moved to Atlanta where she became
active in many women's organizations. She found comfort in her work
with the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Suffrage
Movement. She began producing articles for newspapers, keeping them
in scrapbooks that tell the story of her life after she quit
keeping a diary. In 1899 she was elected president of the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Association. Because of her own losses, Thomas was
sensitive to the well-being of other women. As she said, she had
suffered and grown strong. Her life is an amazing story of survival
and transformation that speaks to women in our own time.
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