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The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West.^[1] It was adapted as the motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956.^[2]

The book consists of a series of vignettes about a Quaker family,^[3] the Birdwells, living in southern Indiana^[1] "near the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row."^[4]

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^ ^a ^b Prescott, Orville (14 November 1945) "Books of the Times; Stories of a Quaker Family A Good Anthology About the Horse" The New York Times page 17, article preview
^ Crowther, Bosley (2 November 1956) "Screen: 'Friendly Persuasion' Persuasive Film; Story of Quakers Is at the Music Hall Civil War Indiana Is Setting for Tale" The New York Times pgae 30, article preview
^ Melcher, Marguerite F. (25 November 1945) "Quaker Memory-Book From the Banks of the Muscatatuck" The New York Times Book Review article preview
^ West Jessamyn (1945) Friendly Persuasion Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, page 3, OCLC 290502

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[Prescott-0] Prescott, Orville (14 November 1945) "Books of the Times; Stories of a Quaker Family A Good Anthology About the Horse" The New York Times page 17, article preview

[1] Crowther, Bosley (2 November 1956) "Screen: 'Friendly Persuasion' Persuasive Film; Story of Quakers Is at the Music Hall Civil War Indiana Is Setting for Tale" The New York Times pgae 30, article preview

[2] Melcher, Marguerite F. (25 November 1945) "Quaker Memory-Book From the Banks of the Muscatatuck" The New York Times Book Review article preview

[3] West Jessamyn (1945) Friendly Persuasion Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, page 3, OCLC 290502

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