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Nancy Webb
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Literary Fiction, Womens Fiction, Historical Fiction
Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
Author Nancy Stanfield Webb is a writer, painter, and photographer who has devoted three decades to researching and writing the two-part biographical fiction series A Woman of Marked Character - The Imagined Portrait of Sarah Ridge Paschal Pix 1812-1891. A fourth-generation Texan, her essays and interview articles with visual artists have been published in Southwest Art magazine and various regional magazines, and her artwork and photography selected for exhibition and publication. Nancy received a writing residency at Millay Colony for the Arts, and as a former Public Information Officer for the Texas State Library and Archives in Austin, she assisted First Lady Laura Bush in establishing the Texas Book Festival. A Woman of Marked Character is her debut novel.
Nancy Webb's books
A Woman of Marked Character-The Imagined Portrait of Sarah Ridge Paschal Pix 1812-1891, Book One 1812-1848
In this intensely researched biographical novel set in Georgia and Indian Territory, Sarah Ridge, the educated daughter of a Cherokee tribal leader, witnesses events leading to the removal of her nation to west of the Mississippi River in 1837. Braving a treacherous river journey with her husband, they arrive in Arkansas, where she bears five children and buries two. When tribal war erupts following the "Trail of Tears," Sarah is compelled to seek revenge against powerful forces in the Cherokee Nation.
Born during an aftershock of the massive New Madrid earthquakes of 1812, Sarah Ridge's tempestuous life tracks the upheaval of her nation's struggle for sovereignty. As negotiations fail, the state of Georgia—with the backing of President Andrew Jackson—unleashes vigilantes on the Cherokee, and Sarah pulls a tortured woman from a burning cabin. She witnesses the signing of the treaty that sells the homeland for land in Indian Territory. Sarah and her husband, a white lawyer, establish a home in Van Buren, Arkansas, where she raises her children amid marital strife and that of her nation.
Painted on a broad canvas with a cast of fictional and historical characters, Book One of this two-part series presents a Native American woman's empowering journey, a portrait of a strong and determined woman, indeed a woman of remarkable character.