The Wind Coming Fair
(The Story of Hannah Callowhill Penn)
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About the Book
In 1700 a young, gentle Englishwoman sailed for three months to reach her husband’s newly-acquired colony of Pennsylvania. A “serious piece of fiction,” THE WIND COMING FAIR gives a different account of life then through the experiences of William Penn’s second wife. It relates her time of fabrics and fashions, midwives and doctors, servants and slaves, as well as Delaware Indians and the turtle clan, printers and punishment, Swedes and superstitions. Through exciting and difficult years and with growing family and responsibilities, Hannah Callowhill Penn kept her good business judgment and became the first woman manager of Pennsylvania.
About the Author
Irene Hoffman Gring has a background of more than 40 years in business administration, including being a staff writer in IBM’s Business Reference Library, Bureau of Statistics and Economics, New York. As document manager for pharmaceutical research laboratories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, she participated in her company’s pioneer program of providing microfiche in submitting new drug applications to the Food and Drug Administration, publishing several articles and traveling to speak before other professional groups. In recent years Irene has reorganized libraries for local retirement centers in Arizona, including Peoria, Sun City and Youngtown.