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Beyond the Silk Mills de Leslie Rupley

Beyond the Silk Mills

Autor Leslie Rupley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2014
Emma Epstein arrives in America in 1898 craving wealth and status. Her husband Meyer, a socialist and textile worker, has a passion for workers' rights, stemming from his days as a weaver in the Jewish ghetto of Lodz, Poland, where he was an activist in the socialist Labor Bund. As she peddles corsets door-to-door, Emma realizes that Meyer will never change or want the same things she does. He clings to his idealism and guides his comrades through the protracted Paterson Silk Strike of 1913. Disillusioned and angry, Emma tramples Meyer's idealism with a determination to acquire riches and finagles her way to success as proprietor of an upscale women's dress shop, The New Woman. By leveraging her earnings in the stock market, she hopes to usher the family into high society. Their daughter, Sophie, is forced to choose between her parents, and the decision leads her to the tenements of New York's Lower East Side, unlikely friendships, pregnancy, and newfound love. Beyond the Silk Mills, is a compelling saga of family discord, ambition, romance, and regret. The Epstein family's struggle during the early twentieth century in New York City and Paterson, New Jersey, illuminates the roots of modern feminism and contemporary labor issues.
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ISBN-13: 9780990426202
ISBN-10: 0990426203
Pagini: 326
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: LTR Productions

Notă biografică

Leslie Rupley authored "Beyond the Silk Mills," a historical family saga, "Remembering Childhood: Workbook Your Way to a Finished Memoir," and twelve ghost-written memoirs. She recalls that when her children were young they poked her when in public. "Mom, don't stare!" She stared because she was day-dreaming about passers-by. Where were they born? What's important to them? What makes them afraid or elated? This curiosity about people and their histories drives her to write both memoir and historical fiction. Memoir writing was not her first career. She earned scholarships and graduate fellowships to finance her way through three degrees, one from William Paterson University and two more from Michigan State University, and embarked on satisfying careers as a reading specialist, educational evaluator, and a school district administrator. Between these vocations in education when her own children were young, she created "A Parent's Place" to develop and market educational toys. While scouting in San Francisco for places to produce her waterproof painting smocks, she encountered near sweatshop conditions that heightened her empathy for the textile mill workers who play a significant role in her novel "Beyond the Silk Mills." The history of Paterson, New Jersey as the center of the silk industry stirred her curiosity because both her predeceased grandfathers had labored in the early twentieth-century silk mills. Her dad often took her to visit the Great Falls of the Passaic River to admire the magnificent waterpower that gave rise to Paterson's early industry. This youthful fascination with the river and the surrounding nineteenth-century brick mills inspired "Beyond the Silk Mills." Leslie began LTR Productions: Preserving Personal Histories in 2006 to write memoirs for her clients. When asked why she hadn't written her own memoir she answered, "I think it would be more fun to make the whole thing up." Voila! Historical Fiction. Subsequently she did write a memoir in the form of childhood vignettes that are incorporated into her book "Remembering Childhood: Workbook Your Way to a Finished Memoir." Leslie and her husband have three grown children and two grandchildren who live near them in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she settled in 1968. Aside from enjoying family and friends as well as writing and teaching, she volunteers, reads, knits, hikes, daydreams, watches TV westerns, cooks healthy food, eats too much chocolate, and laughs whenever possible.