The House on Lowell Street - Keane, Linda A
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Based on a true event: the strike of the Kalamazoo corset workers in 1912. In 1912, trouble is brewing at the Kalamazoo corset factory. Rose Morrison was a comfortable banker's wife, but now she has found herself drawn into the conflict between the workers and a factory owner bent on killing the union whose contract is expiring. Based on a true event, this story of perseverance in the face of a deep moral dilemma will hearten anyone who has struggled to do the right thing when the cost was high.

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Based on a true event: the strike of the Kalamazoo corset workers in 1912. In 1912, trouble is brewing at the Kalamazoo corset factory. Rose Morrison was a comfortable banker's wife, but now she has found herself drawn into the conflict between the workers and a factory owner bent on killing the union whose contract is expiring. Based on a true event, this story of perseverance in the face of a deep moral dilemma will hearten anyone who has struggled to do the right thing when the cost was high.
Autorenporträt
Linda A. Keane left the structured world of business communications to let her imagination fly and create this tale of intrigue in a corset factory in her hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The House on Lowell Street captured the Grand Prize of the 2018 Deep River Books Writer's Contest. Keane is also an award-winning journalist (Maryland Delaware Press Association) with a B.A. and M.S.J. from Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. An editor in corporate communications for the Wrigley Company, she traveled widely to report on new markets and products. Keane thrives on the diversity of Chicago, where she lives with her cat. She welcomes visits from her daughter Alex, granddaughter Phoebe, and son Marty. A lifelong Methodist, she is a member of First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple and United Methodist Women. Keane shares her love of reading with third graders at a neighborhood school.