Jane Kirkpatrick
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Local Novelist gives Historical Women a Voice

Jane Kirkpatrick, award-winning author, focuses on celebrating women of the West
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“Women’s history must be invented… both uncovered and made up.“ – Virginia Woolf Envisioning the wild, wild West leads to very specific imagery: dusty trails, tumbleweeds and rugged, leather-clad cowboys patrolling the countryside on horseback. Men certainly take the spotlight when it comes to historical depictions of the Old West. Author and longtime Bendite Jane […]

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PICK: Author Jane Kirkpatrick

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wednesday 9 Author Jane Kirkpatrick READING—In the early 20th century at a sanitarium near Seattle, Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard starved women to death,  claiming it was a miraculous fasting cure. Author Jane Kirkpatrick explores that dark time in her novella “A Saving Grace,” about a woman’s attempt to rescue her friend from danger. 4 pm. Paulina Springs, 252 W. […]

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Jane Kirkpatrick Resurrects History

One Glorious Ambition is yet another novel from one gloriously ambitious writer
Christie Hinrichs

Award-winning and prolific local author Jane Kirkpatrick brings history to life. Lending her inspirational voice to historical women has earned her more than 25 published books, numerous awards, and countless devoted readers. In her new novel, One Glorious Ambition, Kirkpatrick focuses on an early champion of the mentally ill, and her efforts to ensure compassionate […]

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