![]() She is the perfect spinster/plain Jane type of protagonist that some of us love to read about in a book. When local farmer and widower and father to a slew of children, Ancyl Drayton decides to come calling, you can feel both Hattie's pain and her hope for a future she thought she would never have - a husband and children. I loved Miss Hattie. The fact that Hattie's looks are lacking count heavily against her - behind her back her nickname is "Horseface Hattie." ![]() But Hattie is a woman, and as a woman in a community where girls marry at the tender age of seventeen, she's considered an old spinster and treated as such. She is respected, as an excellent farmer who owns her own land, is independent and knowledgeable and also happens to be an excellent housekeeper and cook. In Miss Hattie, Morsi again works with a character that is viewed as different by her community. She tells the story of Miss Hattie, a 29-year-old spinster who has never been courted, until now. ![]() In Courting Miss Hattie, Morsi once again sets her story in an Arkansas farming community and captures both time and place. ![]()
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