Books Like Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 15 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee.

Books Like Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 15 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee.
This section contains 148 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page)
Buy the Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee Short Guide

In the last decade of her life, Beatty wrote five other novels about the Civil War besides Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee.

In Turn Homeward, Hannalee, Beatty introduces the character Hannalee. At the novel's start, Hannalee is twelve years old. She works in a mill in Roswell, Georgia. When Union troops come, they burn down the mill and carry off the mill workers to the North, forcing them to work for Northerners.

In her notes to Turn Homeward, Hannalee, Beatty takes pains to point out that no one really knows what happened to the mill workers after they were taken north. Charley Skedaddle is about a drummer boy in the Union Army who deserts his regiment. Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey tells of the first battle between ironclad ships. Jayhawker discusses abolitionism. Each of these books displays Beatty's extensive historical research for the backgrounds of her novels.

(read more)

This section contains 148 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page)
Buy the Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee Short Guide
Copyrights
Gale
Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.