Bye-Bye, Bunny, Book Three,
Dad's War, 2002 Edition
BYE,BYE BUNNIE, BOOK ONE: CALL THEWIND MORIAH
SECTION A compare forward and character list with section 8
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(Move to end of each book. Include all characters.)
l.) Doctor Talbot Coleridge Jefferies, (Jeff, Lord Jeff), b. London l840,
2.) Lady Susan Higbee Jefferies, b. Ludlow, Mass., l845
3.) Llyman Talbot Jefferies, b. London, l865
4.) Mona Higbee Jefferies b. London l867
5.) Gleddy Plash Woodseaves (Sophie's mother) b. l846
5.5.) Prue Woodseaves Wainwright, (Mary's mother)
b. Lillingford, Northumberland, l847
6.) Mary Wainwright Sutherland, b. Baube, (East End) London l862, l child too weak to survive
7.) Sophie Woodseaves Sutherland Marshall, b. London l867
7.5) Fergus Sutherland, b. l856, Sutherland, Scotland
8.) Sampson Jefferies Sutherland, b. l882, 2 children
9.) Mavis Sutherland b. l885 London, 4 children,2 deceased
l0.) Laura Sutherland b. l887, 3 children,b1 deceased
ll.) Lizzie Sutherland b. l895, l child deceased.
ll.5.) John Eliot Marshall,second husband of Sophie, b. l86 Nantuktucket
l2.) RuthEllicott Marshall, b. l893 Cape Cod, Mass., mother deceased.
I am with you altogether, though I
live not where I love
Jean Redpath
PREFACE
Writing has been, for me, both consolation and vocation; an element of my fate. During most of my writing years I have been ill. Bye Bye Bunnie has formed gradually in my mind. It is a Morman American novel. I have not argued with time and contemplation for placing this work and no other in my hands. It has been my passion, obsession, and when death has hovered and I feared that I would not finish it, my salvation and dispair.
For Bunny, I have heavily relied on oral sources which are my legacy. My mother's parents were collectors of Southern Utah physical and oral history. I felt very much in their historical soup when I read the somewhat unpolished Dixie classic,The Giant Joshua, at B.Y.U.. During World War II Joshua was purchased wholesale by the British government for the distraction of Londoners confined to the subway tubes during Hitler's bombing raids. Later, my grandfather told me that Maureen Whipple stayed overnight with he and his bride while collecting material for her book.
I began formal research for my novel as a student spouse and frequent auditer at the Y. I owe much to Gene England and my great aunt Marie's grandson, Clifton Jolley. literature professers who allowed my penurius and spectral presence in classes for which I could not afford tuition. I also haunted and am indebted to BYU.s fine manuscript collection where the true story of Sophie and Mary Jewkes can be found.
I have taken broad liberties with the account of their lives I had from their granddaughter, Mellisa Pearl Mc Call.
I hope that wherever they are they will be amused by the wild liberties I have taken with their lives. My own dear grandparents will be less pleased. They considered Joshua a profane work . They faulted Maurine Whipple for returning to secular notice private and sacral marital customs then practiced by many who were old and sometimes frail.
In Bunny I have tried to recreate a delicate historical landscape that is dissappearing beneath the sediment of time. There are many types of Mormons. I have heard that more than half speak Spanish and most retain their culture and customs. I hope there will be many other Mormon writers to write other books about other Mormon traditions.
Some beleive that it is possible and safer to conceal the tradition of plural marrage, however, history leaves traces. I think of the ancient reptiles and fish, extinct now, but ever revealing fossil evidence of the truth of their existence. As Utah Mormons, we revere our ancestors and love the courage of their lives.
Lest we forget.
Ketja
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