Lusty Wind for Carolina
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| Author | Inglis Fletcher |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill |
Publication date | 1944 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 509 |
Lusty Wind for Carolina is a 1944 American historical novel by Inglis Fletcher. It was the third of her "Carolina Series" series of books. Later editions were printed in hardcover by The Blakiston Company (1945) and in paperback by Permabooks (1951) and Bantam (1970).[1] It was also published in full as a "Star Weekly Complete Novel" by the Toronto Star Weekly on August 3, 1946.[2]
Fletcher dedicated the novel to Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
Fletcher, whose work was respected for its historical detail, undertook a research trip to the Nassau Library on the Island of New Providence; the Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress; the State Historical Commission in Raleigh; the Duke University library; and the archives of the Chowan County Courthouse, near her home in Edenton. While writing Lusty Wind for Carolina, Fletcher spent some time at Clarendon Plantation, the Wilmington home of Margaret Walthour Lippitt (who is thanked in the book's acknowledgements). Fletcher also did much of her research for the book at the Wilmington Public Library in Wilmington, North Carolina. Two years after the book was published, Fletcher donated her original manuscript to the organization's archive.[3][4]