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Josephine, A Memoir – 1917-1959: From Washington Working Girl to Fisherman’s Wife

December 23, 2021 By

$17.00

By Margaret Thomas Buchholz:  During World War I, before women had the right to vote in America, a young Josephine Lehman Thomas answered the patriotic call from Washington, D.C. and became one of the pioneering ”government girls”. leaving her home in Michigan for adventure in the nation’s capital.  Through explored diaries and letters, her daughter, Margaret Thomas Buchholz, gives us an amazing chronicle of a trailblazing woman.  Josephine worked for legendary journalist Lowell Thomas and traveled the world until the Great Depression dropped her and her new family, struggling to get by, on an island off the coast of New Jersey.  This fascinating personal history reveals the optimism of the early 20th Century, the emerging professional woman, the thrill of travel and a sense of success, followed by the crash of the economy, losing everything, and ultimately happiness in a simple life by the sea.

 

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