Suffer and Grow Strong
The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton
1834-1907
Meet Carolyn
Carolyn Curry is an award-winning author, historian, and non-profit founder and director of Women Alone Together®. She holds a BA from Agnes Scott College and a MA and PhD from Georgia State University. In 2014, she published Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas 1834-1907. In 2015, it was selected One of the Books all Georgians should read by the Georgia Center for the Book. In that same year, Curry received Georgia Author of the Year from the Georgia Writers Association.
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In a society and era when women were afforded no voice, Ella Gertrude Clanton
Thomas found hers and, in the fullness of time, raised it in support of other women. Dr.
Carolyn Curry’s inspiring and highly readable novel tells the little-known story of
ordinary Southern women who endure tragedy, turmoil and loss, yet find strength and
courage to carve out new lives for themselves in a fast-changing world.
Sudden Death, Carolyn Curry’s debut novel, has something for all readers. Her characters walk off the page in this intriguing read. Doesn’t get much better than Saturday afternoon college football. This story is much more than a mystery, but it has plenty of riddles to solve. Curry’s passion for women’s rights shines through in this story of Kendall, a wife of a university football coach. The author pulls you in for the ride of your life. Hold on!
Suffer and Grow Strong is a remarkable biography by Carolyn Curry that is destined to become a classic in women’s studies. It tells the story of the redoubtable Ella Gertrude Thomas, who kept a vivid record of her life for forty-one years. Her courage and resilience during and after the Civil War are reminiscent of Scarlett O’Hara. History has been a great silencer of women, but Suffer and Grow Strong tells the tale of a white Southern woman who endures the whirlwind of the war and the deprivations of Reconstruction, then fought hard enough for women’s rights that my grandmother was eligible to cast her first vote in 1920. This book is a great achievement for Carolyn Curry.
2022
2022
First Novel
Published Sudden Death A Novel
Suffer and Grow Strong
The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1834–1907
An intimate story of devastating loss and ultimate triumph . . . The courage, perseverance, and metamorphosis of a real life Scarlett O’Hara.
In 2002 Carolyn founded Women Alone Together®, a 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit foundation. It works to help women who are alone because of death of spouse, divorce, their choice not to marry, or alone because of separation, disease, or estrangement. However, all women are welcome.
