Storm Child: A Three Fold Novel

  • New York: John C. Yorston Publishing Co, 1937
By CARMEN, Ruth
New York: John C. Yorston Publishing Co, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 321pp; illus. Beginning oxidation to spine gilt, with touches of discoloration to cloth; very good. Dustjacket unclipped, with light edgewear and gentle sunning to spine; a good, strong, clean copy.
Novelized version of the real-life events surrounding the birth of Georgia Norwood, the first child born at the Boston Lighthouse in Boston Harbor. During a spring storm in 1932, Georgia's mother, Josephine Norwood, believed the birth was imminent, and a doctor was summond from a nearby town. It took an hour and a half for the boat to land at the island in heavy seas, and though Georgia wasn't born until a week later (in calm weather...), she would be forever known as "Storm Child.

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