Women Warriors – Morgan Wilder https://morganwilder.com Author of the Rebellion Series of Historical Romance Novels Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:31:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://morganwilder.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Morgan-Wilder-Logo-Thumbnail.jpg Women Warriors – Morgan Wilder https://morganwilder.com 32 32 Hit Me with Your Best Shot https://morganwilder.com/hit-me-with-your-best-shot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hit-me-with-your-best-shot Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:29:42 +0000 http://morganwilder.com/?p=240 Hit me with your best shotOne of the major themes in Wounded is the conflict between what mid-nineteenth-century society expected women to be, and what my heroine, Sarah, wants to be. In her mild, quiet way, Sarah rejects the Victorian ideal of the submissive, passive, nurturing woman. She is brave enough and ignorant enough to decide that she’ll just go her own way. But in that time and place, the only way she could be free was by shedding her female identity and living as a man. Society wasn’t ready for a woman who stood up for herself and wouldn’t submit.

When Sarah puts on a man’s uniform and joins the Union army, she has no idea how much that decision will cost her. And that’s another major theme in the story.

 

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