Colcorton

**Warning: Some of the language or characterizations in this book are the product of the time when this book was written, and are no longer considered acceptable.**

On a plantation passed down through the generations north of Vilano Beach and south of Palm Valley, Abby Clanghearne is caught off guard when her younger brother, Jared, returns home with a 17-year-old impoverished bride. Dealing with this sudden and unwelcome family-dynamic change, and her fear that others will learn their grandmother was actually a slave owned by their grandfather, Abby attempts to keep the family secret buried. But then tragedy strikes when her brother learns the secret from a source other than herself. This story is reminiscent of, but not the same as the history of the Kingsley's at Fort George Island.

Edith Everett Taylor Pope was a local St. Augustinian born in 1905. Her husband, also a local, was a state senator. She published books before and after her marriage. Colcorton was published using her married name.

PS3531 .O595 C6 1944

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Colcorton

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons

Hardcover book

English

Mystery or Thriller
Race Relations

1912-1975

Purchased

Gardner, Janette C. An Annotated Bibliography of Florida Fiction, 1801-1980. St. Petersburg, FL: Little Bayou Press, 1983.

McCarthy, Kevin. M. The Book Lover’s Guide to Florida. 1^st ed. Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 1992.

McCarthy, Kevin. M. “Historical St. Augustine in Fiction.” El Escribano 15 (1978): 61-69.

Pope, Edith Everett Taylor. Colcorton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.