Suffer and Grow Strong - Carolyn Newton Curry - Bog

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas was an intelligent, spirited woman born in 1834 to one of the wealthiest families in Georgia. At the age of fourteen she began and kept a diary for forty-one years. These diaries of her life before, during, and after the Civil War filled thirteen hand-written volumes. Her life is an amazing story of survival and transformation that speaks to women in our own time.