The Adventures of Elizabeth Fortune

by Kae Cheatham

When Elizabeth Fortune is forced to quit school and find a way to get by, she must rely on all her personal resources. For a young woman in 1870, that's hard enough, but for someone of mixed Native... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936085444
• ISBN13: 9780936085449
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Blue Heron Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

This is an excellent book.

K. Follis Cheatham is an excellent writer, and she has every right and reason to be proud of this book in particular. Elizabeth's story is wonderfully presented and a delight to the reader. It takes us to a distant time and place and allows us to experience that era, so very different from out own, through the eyes of a bright and determined young woman. I would have enjoyed meeting Elizabeth. I did enjoy reading about her as Ms. Cheatham created her.

Insightful and Entertaining

This is a truly fine novel. I particularly enjoyed the way the author was able to blend history with fiction and create an entertaining and enlightening story. The post-Civil war setting came alive for me as did Elizabeth Fortune's situation as a young woman of mixed heritage in those troubled and exciting times. I'm definitely looking forward to Ms. Cheatham's next book.

A Young Woman for Our Time

Elizabeth Fortune could be viewed as a victim, but that is not how she sees herself. Disdained by her white grandparents for looking too much like her black father, Elizabeth sets out to find him and her place in the world. That she undertakes this quest, a young woman alone, in the years immediately after the American Civil War makes her a heroine indeed. It is refreshing to see such a counterpoint to the stereotypes of American womanhood from that time that we are used to. Elizabeth Fortune serves to remind us that this was not only the days of hoop skirts and corsets, but also of Seneca Falls and the first vigorous upswelling of the women's rights movement. A vicious attack and a robbery of all her money are no checks to Elizabeth's determination. If she cannot make her way west to find her father as herself, she will go as a boy. And so she does.Her adventures are many, and vividly drawn. Elizabeth herself is a young woman of both grit and charm. I would recommend this book to anyone in search of a heroine to identify with.

Loved this book!

I recieved this book and sat down and read it all. I couldn't put it down. The details of life in Elizabeth's time were great and the adventure caught me up. I can't wait to see what will come next. There must be a sequel!