A Woman of Marked Character The Imagined Portrait of Sarah Ridge Paschal Pix 1812-1891, Book Two 1848-1891

In Book Two 1848-1891 of this biographical fiction series, Sarah Ridge Paschal arrives in Galveston in 1848 with her husband and three children. There as a divorced, independent woman she builds a rewarding life while enduring the death of another child, hurricanes, and yellow fever epidemics. Marrying a man much her junior and bearing another son, Sarah Pix trades her city property for an isolated homeplace on 500 acres of prairie ranchland across Galveston Bay. As a determined pioneer, she encounters a bitter land encroachment, the privations of the Civil War, cattle rustling, and heartbreaking adversities that rip her soul.

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 on Sarah Ridge. The great-granddaughter of Texas pioneers and now living in Rhode Island, Webb's essays and interview articles with visual artists have been published in Southwest Art magazine and various regional magazines. She is an associate member of Western Writers of America and is the recipient of a writing residency to Millay Colony for the Arts. The author of Book One of A Woman of Marked Character, in Book Two, Webb concludes the series.