Adventures of Deborah Sampson

By Ruthie Marlenée and Jovanka Bach

Adventures of Deborah Sampson by Jovanka Bach

Set during the Revolutionary War, this is a story about how Deborah Sampson takes on the persona of a male soldier in the army. One of three daughters and three sons of Jonathan and Deborah Sampson; her youth is spent in poverty after her father abandons the family and goes off and drowns at sea. Her mother, unable to support all the children, eventually sends Deborah off as a servant to the household of Jeremiah Thomas.

With an education that is mostly self-taught, she doesnt want the life of a school teacher or of a weaver, another trade for a woman. A chance meeting with Nathan Andrews happens at a party, which takes place when she returns to the home of her mother, whom she hasnt seen for many years. A quick romance with Nathan leads to a marriage ceremony however, before the ceremony is over, Deborah runs off and leaves her husband stranded. She purchases some mens clothes and manages to enlist in the army disguised as a man. Shed come to feel that it would be more honorable to be suffocated with the smoke from a cannon than to waste a useful, intended existence in despair suffocating by the smoke from a chimney in a warm farmhouse just because shed been born a girl. After a number of battles in which she proves herself as a competent soldier, her husband finally tracks her down. She manages to maintain her independence in spite of Nathans continual pleading for reconciliation. Eventually she is wounded in battle, and while being treated in a military hospital, the doctor discovers that she is actually a woman. Nathan continues trying to convince Deborah to leave the army and rejoin him in the marriage they had planned. Eventually she agrees and leaves the army to return to a life with Nathan.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514418109

Ruthie Marlenée

Ruthie Marlene is a published novelist, an award-winning screenwriter, ghostwriter and poet. Shes earned a Writers Certificate With Distinction from UCLA and was a nominee for the James Kirkwood Literary Award for her novel Curse of the Ninth. Some of her work can be found in Silver Birch Press, Long Story Short and Los Angeles Poet Laureates Coiled Serpent Anthology. Her novel Agave Blues is coming out soon.

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