True Women

by Janice Woods Windle

Book Overview

Available again in a hardcover edition, "True Women" is WindleUs bestselling novel about several generations of strong Texas women, based upon the lives of her own ancestors.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399138137
• ISBN13: 9780399138133
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

What a wonderful saga! What a bunch of terrific dames!

I will never forget my enthusiasm in reading this novel of Janice Woods Windle. And that enthusiasm led me to recommend it a dozen times over, and to buy copies for friends and relatives. I just think it is one of the most incredible reads of historical fiction of Texas that has been written. Don't let the racy paperback cover mislead you. This is not a bodice buster. It is BETTER than that, as Woods Windle's connection to Texas' early days of settlement through the fight for freedom from Mexico to those as a young republic and finally a part of the United States are just terrific.Related from Windle's own family tree, the original hardbound copy contains photos of her own family's women in the front and back end pages of the cover. While reading, it is a joy to thumb back and forth to match the faces to the characters in the story.The courage of these women on the Runaway Scrape, against the area's Indians, in maintaining home and hearth while their men tended to the business of warfare, both for independence and the War between the States, or of cattle drives, or trade, that courage makes them just unforgettable.This is one of my all time favorite reads. I can't recommend it anymore highly than to say, I would read it again and give it as a gift even today.

Awesome book!!

I first saw this story when it was a miniseries on tv and after I saw it I had to get the book and read it. As soon as I got the book I didn't put it down. I am now in 9th grade and I had the book for silent reading in my 8th grade class and the book was finished in less than a month. Usually I don't like reading LONG books but this one was a page turner. The cool thing is I felt I could relate to Euphemia the most. What these women went through makes me feel awesome to be a woman. If women didn't have people like them around back then I don't even want to think what women's lives would be like today! Read it, because its awesome.

Very talented writer! Great story!

What a wonderful novel! How delightful to look inside the cover and see these photos that you look at again and again as the story evolves. What a poignant story of these families. I thought it very exciting and well written. Lovely book!

Very impressive as an historical novel!

I have placed this book on the top of my list of "most memorable" and have read the sequel. I have purchased four of the books and now wish to donate two copies to our library and find that it is no longer in print! Disastrous. Janice Woods Windle has an outstanding gift and one that is truly appreciated. Being a fan of Grisham, Cook, Ludlum, et al, this was quite a turn about for me. It possibly helped me appreciate Grisham's latest novel (the switch to emphasis being on adventure rather than law). I am forever a fan of Ms. Woods and hope she continues to write in the manner of fact/fiction. Gifted lady!Kay Clark

Absoloutley wonderful! An exciting and engrossing novel!

Based upon author Janice Woods Windle's own family, this exciting novel tells the story of three generations of strong willed, independent Texas women. Euphemia Texas Ashby King was there when Sam Housten's rag-tag Texan army beat Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto.... Georgia Virginia Lawshee Woods risked her plantation running the cotton blockade during the Civil War... but still had to defend her family against a Yankee officer....Bettie Moss King survived wolves and storms to bring her family through the turbulent birth of modern times. Alive and with a spirit of its own, True Women is an exciting, engrossing novel that truly captures the spirit of America. A must-read!