Three Women

Three Women captures the passionate and intense experiences of life as a woman in the southern Victorian Era: dreams and aspirations, survival in the post-Civil War South, and the deep wounds of loved ones lost. From handwritten sources found pushed into corners of dark closets and in danger of being discarded, and from the years of travel and research that followed, Nancilu Butler Burdick discovers and portrays the various struggles, some kept secret until now, of three women in their efforts to reach their own self-imposed goals for a meaningful life.