Download Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris. A 1919 romantic and domestic novel about the Strickland family, Cherry Strickland, sisterhood, love, marriage, family loyalty, and emotional growth. Available in PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and AZW3 formats.
About Sisters
Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris is a 1919 romantic and domestic novel of family loyalty, young love, sisterhood, marriage, moral choice, and emotional growth. Ideal for readers who enjoy early twentieth-century American fiction, women's lives, family drama, courtship, and character-led romance, it follows the Strickland family, especially Cherry Strickland, as engagement, affection, expectation, and self-discovery reshape the bonds between sisters and the life of the household.
Genre: Romance Fiction
Why Read Sisters?
When Kathleen Thompson Norris opens Sisters, Cherry Strickland is caught up in the excitement of a life-changing romantic moment. Her engagement to Martin Lloyd brings happiness, expectation, uncertainty, and new attention from the family around her. What begins as private joy quickly becomes part of a wider domestic story about sisters, love, responsibility, and growing up.
Sisters is an excellent choice for readers who enjoy romantic fiction rooted in family life rather than melodrama. Norris writes about affection, courtship, marriage, and personal choice through the everyday pressures of home, conversation, social expectation, and the different ways women imagine their futures.
The Strickland household gives the novel much of its emotional texture. Cherry's youth and romantic excitement are set beside the steadier perspectives of those around her, including her sister Alix and cousin Anne. Their different responses to love and marriage reveal the tensions between impulse, caution, hope, loyalty, and experience.
Norris is especially interested in the passage from girlhood into adult responsibility. Cherry's engagement is not treated merely as a happy ending, but as the beginning of more difficult questions. What does love ask of a person? How far should family influence personal happiness? What happens when romantic feeling meets daily reality, duty, and consequence?
The novel also belongs to the tradition of domestic fiction, where the household is not a narrow setting but a place where moral and emotional life is tested. Sisters, parents, suitors, and relatives become part of the same web of feeling, and the choices of one person affect the hopes and disappointments of others.
Readers who enjoy romance fiction, American domestic fiction, family-centred novels, women's writing, and stories of emotional development will find Sisters warm, thoughtful, and accessible. It reflects Kathleen Thompson Norris's continuing interest in love, marriage, family bonds, and the social expectations placed on women in the early twentieth century.
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