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Historical person
late 19th–early 20th century
Cassie Hendricks Simpson was the wife of Oregon coast entrepreneur Louis J. Simpson and a central historical figure behind A Gathering of Finches.
This person is linked because Jane Kirkpatrick portrays the historical figure under their own identity. Dialogue, private motives and undocumented incidents are imaginative reconstruction and should not be read as a complete biography.
Series
The Dreamcatcher series gathers four biographical novels about women and families who shaped communities across Oregon and Florida from the mid-nineteenth century into the early twentieth. Pioneer settlement, Indigenous displacement, coastal wealth and frontier education create very different settings, but each book centres on the consequences of belonging…
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