"Thankful Rest" by Annie S. Swan is a story set in the late 1800s about Joshua Strong and his sister Hepzibah, who reside at their family estate, Thankful Rest. The central characters' peaceful lives are upended when they learn about the death of Hepzibah’s sister and unexpectedly become guardians to her orphaned children, leading to new pressures as they adapt to this unexpected family expansion. Initially, Hepzibah is portrayed as a rigid woman immersed in her household chores and duty, but the sad news triggers concerns about how their lives will change. We see Tom and Lucy, the orphaned children, coping with loss, foreshadowing the emotional challenges they will face living together. The story then explores the dynamics after the children arrive at Thankful Rest, hinting at the struggles and growth each character faces, old and young alike.
Thankful Rest
By Annie S. Swan
In the late 1800s, a pair of siblings' tranquil existence is disturbed when they become the caretakers of orphaned children, leading to unforeseen challenges and reshaping their family ties.
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About the AuthorAnnie Shepherd Swan, CBE was a Scottish journalist and fiction writer. She wrote mainly in her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. A writer of romantic fiction for women, she had over 200 novels, serials, stories and other fiction published between 1878 and her death. She has been called "one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". Swan was politically active in the First World War, and as a suffragist, a Liberal activist and founder-member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party.
Annie Shepherd Swan, CBE was a Scottish journalist and fiction writer. She wrote mainly in her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. A writer of romantic fiction for women, she had over 200 novels, serials, stories and other fiction published between 1878 and her death. She has been called "one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". Swan was politically active in the First World War, and as a suffragist, a Liberal activist and founder-member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party.
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