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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1943]
Language
English
Description
Elswyth Thane is best known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II. Dawn's Early Light is the first novel in the series. In it, Colonial Williamsburg comes alive. Thane centers her novel around four major characters: the Aristrocratic St. John Sprague, who becomes George Washington's aide; Regina Greensleeves, a Virginia...
2) Kissing kin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1948]
Language
English
Description
Volume 5 of The Williamsburg Series. This is the adventures of the twins Calvert and Camilla Scott from the First World War through 1934. Both of them go overseas, Camilla to act as nurse's aide in the hospitals run by her cousins in London and Gloucestershire. Calvert to serve briefly on the crew of a big gun. Chiefly it is Camilla's story, her futile love for a Frenchman, her involvement in the stormy passions of Jenny and the American who - with...
Series
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
"This documentary which opens with a ten-minute period drama about the importance of Williamsburg in 1774, explains the mission of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin in the 1920s to restore Williamsburg to a colonial American icon. Through the painstaking research of curator, historians, and architects, the town's restoration plan is mapped out. Construction tradesmen from the twentieth century transform rundown exteriors into period...
11) The blacksmith in eighteenth-century Williamsburg: an account of his life & times and of his craft
Series
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
14) The Bookbinder in eighteenth-century Williamsburg: an account of his life & times, & of his craft
Series
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
19) The silversmith in eighteenth-century Williamsburg: an account of his life & times, & of his craft
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
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