About the Author
M. Lynn Greene is a retired lawyer and holds a Master’s degree in Law from Cambridge University and a Master’s in American History (ALM) from Harvard University. She divides her time between Toronto, Canada, and Scottsdale, Arizona. She is currently working on a sequel to The Women of Harvard Square, entitled The Daughters of Harvard Square.
About the Book
It’s July 1775, almost 250 years before the start of American independence from the British Crown, the beginning of the American Revolution, and George Washington’s Continental Army has set up headquarters in Cambridge Massachusetts, the home of Harvard University. When eighteen-year-old Hannah Bradford, daughter of a prominent Harvard professor, takes her little brother for a walk, little does she know that a fortuitous encounter with Caleb Smith, a handsome young soldier in Washington’s army, will change her life.
In The Women of Harvard Square, author M. Lynn Greene gives us a fictional, but historically based, account of the lives of seven very different women—young and old, white and Black, rich and poor, free and enslaved. In this compelling and richly detailed story we learn about the mores and customs of the day, the changing role of women, and the inherent dangers these women face due to the influx of soldiers between 1775 and 1780. Couples meet and fall in love, children are born, the Revolution continues, and tragedy strikes several of the families. In the end, the women find the challenges presented to them improve their lives in ways they could not have imagined.
