Just Where You Stand - Lewis, Sandra Marie
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In 1844 Abingdon, Berkshire, England, John weds Lenore. He drinks far too much and cruelly abuses wife and children. Twenty years later, lying on her deathbed the downtrodden woman tells her grown son George she is not good enough for Heaven. In 1889, not long after Lenore's death, George marries Ellen. While he and Ellen start up and run a successful milk dairy for ten years he spends any spare time seeking a Christian church which does not condemn a sinner and therefore, perhaps his deceased mother, to Hell. An exciting new controversial sect lures him but meetings take place in Reading, a…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In 1844 Abingdon, Berkshire, England, John weds Lenore. He drinks far too much and cruelly abuses wife and children. Twenty years later, lying on her deathbed the downtrodden woman tells her grown son George she is not good enough for Heaven. In 1889, not long after Lenore's death, George marries Ellen. While he and Ellen start up and run a successful milk dairy for ten years he spends any spare time seeking a Christian church which does not condemn a sinner and therefore, perhaps his deceased mother, to Hell. An exciting new controversial sect lures him but meetings take place in Reading, a distant location. Fully won over, George ups and sells the dairy and moves the reluctant family close to the Russelites' meeting place. Income dwindles. Seeking satisfactory work he has everyone including a new son-in-law immigrating in 1913 to Toronto, Canada. The son-in-law is Jack, husband of daughter Gertie. Jack will himself become addicted to the Russelites, eventually to be named Jehovah's Witnesses. What do the wives do in such controlled circumstances? The reader might well reflect that nothing ever really changes for them - yet will be impressed and uplifted by their courage and stamina.
Autorenporträt
Once upon a time, Sandra Marie Lewis was a teacher/chairperson in Ontario's public school system. She taught Grades One to Eleven but not all at the same time. It took thirty-two years. Retirement and a pension after those years of work for pay allowed time for creative writing, writing courses and family history research. The link between those pleasures eventually provided an obvious set of facts and a theme for this current novel. Sometimes gardening and genealogy beat out writing for her time. Her two sons, daughters-in-law and five grandchildren are in her heart no matter what she does.