![]() 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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