Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings – serie
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Heritage of Woe
The Civil War Diary of Grace Brown Elmore, 1861-1868
Inbunden, 1997
845 kr
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This diary chronicles the defining years in the life of Grace Brown Elmore, one of eight children in a wealthy and influential Columbia, South Carolina, family. Begun just five months into the Civil War, when Elmore was twenty-two, it is a rich personal account of a society in the midst of chaotic …
Chained to the Rock of Adversity
To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South
Häftad, 1998
440 kr
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Chained to the Rock of Adversity offers valuable insight into the lives of the Old South's free women of color, using personal letters and a diary to tell an extraordinary story.The letters, from family members and friends, were written between 1844 and 1899 to Ann Battles Johnson, wife of …
Anna
The Letters of a St. Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817-1859
Av Anna Matilda King, Melanie Pavich
Inbunden, 2002
932 kr
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As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This volume collects more than 150 letters to her husband, children, parents, and others. Conveying the substance of everyday life as they …
Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848–1879
Av Dolly Lunt Burge, Christine Jacobson Carter
Häftad, 2006
561 kr
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The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge is the compelling story of an ordinary woman rising to meet extraordinary challenges in nineteenth-century Georgia. Dolly Lunt Burge's full life was remarkable for the range of roles she filled and the variety of her experiences. That her life coincided with critical …
Shadows on My Heart
The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia
Av Lucy Rebecca Buck, Elizabeth R. Baer
Häftad, 2012
595 kr
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When the Civil War began in 1861 Lucy Rebecca Buck was the eighteen-year-old daughter of a prosperous planter, living on her family's plantation in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. On Christmas Day of that year she began a diary which she would keep for the duration of the war, during which time …
Tokens of Affection
The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South
Av Maria Bryan, Carol K. Bleser
Inbunden, 1996
1140 kr
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This collection comprises all of the known letters written by Maria Bryan (1808-1844) of Mt. Zion, Georgia, to her sister Julia Bryan Cumming of Augusta. Spanning a period from the mid-1820s to the mid-1840s, the letters relate firsthand the daily affairs and concerns of a planter's daughter on a …
Roots and Ever Green
The Selected Letters of Ina Dillard Russell
Inbunden, 1999
1176 kr
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When Ina Dillard Russell died in 1953, flags throughout Georgia were lowered to half-mast in honor of her dedication to her state, community, and family. Roots and Ever Green is the engaging true story, told through her letters, of this remarkable woman's life at the turn of the century in a …
Memories of a Georgia Teacher
Fifty Years in the Classroom
Av Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett Sr.
Inbunden, 2002
993 kr
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Memories of a Georgia Teacher chronicles the personal and professional life of a principled, resourceful, and deeply religious woman whose career began at a time when state support for primary education was all but nonexistent. Martha Mizell started teaching in 1913 in a one-room, one-teacher …
