She met Henry Giles on a bus in 1943 and they began a two-year courtship, mostly by correspondence because he was serving in World War II. She worked as a secretary for church congregations and in the field of religious education. She married Otto Moore in 1923 they had one daughter together and divorced in 1939. She attended Little Rock Junior College and then the University of Arkansas. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life."Īuthor Janice Holt Giles was born in Altus, Arkansas on March 28, 1905. Realistically but with understanding, she shows us a society animated not only by saintliness but by bigotry and ordinary human frailties.Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Giles gives us a unique picture of everyday life in a Shaker village, one of the experiments in utopian communal living that are a part of American history.
As time passes and she sees Richard's affection recede, only her stubborn honesty gives her the strength to deny lip service to a doctrine she cannot truly accept and, at the last, courage to follow the dictates of her heart.In this novel, Mrs. She becomes part of a strange world in which men and women - even husbands and wives - live apart, coming together only for meals and for worship. The Shaker missionaries newly arrived in Kentucky find him an easy convert.When Richard joins the Shaker community, Rebecca goes with him, as a dutiful wife should, hoping that her love will ultimately win him back to her and to the larger world. At first the marriage is happy it is only after their child is stillborn that Richard shows preliminary signs of religious fanaticism in his insistence that this is God's punishment visited upon the. She cannot remember a time when she has not loved and trusted him and followed where he led.
In The Believers, first published in 19567, she continues her series about the settling of Kentucky with a moving story of love and marriage set in a Shaker community.Rebecca Fowler is only seventeen when she marries Richard Cooper.
"In her historical novels about Kentucky, Janice Holt Giles has become known for the integrity with which she handles her material and for the realism with which she writes. In The Believers, first published in 19567, she continues her series about t.
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