![]() So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. Georgeanna “Georgey” Woolsey isn’t meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. ![]() ![]() “An exquisite tapestry of women determined to defy the molds the world has for them.”-Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. ![]()
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