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Southern Woman of Letters
The Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
Av Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, Rebecca Grant Sexton
Inbunden, 2002
490 kr
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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909) was one of nineteenth-century America's most popular novelists and outspoken supporters of the Confederacy. Her nine novels include the recently reissued Beulah, the stridently pro-Confederate Macaria, and the extremely successful St. Elmo, which rivaled Uncle …
Faithful Heart
The Journals of Emmala Reed, 1865 and 1866
Av Emmala Reed, Robert T. Oliver m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
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Emmala Reed (1839-1893) may not have watched the unfolding of the Civil War from the front lines, but she nonetheless witnessed the collapse of the Confederacy. With the fall of Charleston and the burning of Columbia, waves of refugees flooded into her hometown of Anderson, South Carolina. …
Country Women Cope with Hard Times
A Collection of Oral Histories
Häftad, 2010
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It was hard times, French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echoed by the sixteen other women who talk about their lives in Country Women Cope with Hard Times. Born between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, these women grew up on farms, in labor camps, …
Dream and a Chisel
Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925–1928
Av Angela Gregory, Nancy L. Penrose
Inbunden, 2019
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A portrait of a young artist’s formative years studying sculpture in Paris, recounted in her own words.Angela Gregory is considered by many the doyenne of Louisiana sculpture and is a notable twentieth century American sculptor. In A Dream and a Chisel, Angela Gregory and Nancy Penrose explore …
Stateside Soldier
Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945
Inbunden, 2001
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I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY who has ever done such a daring thing as I have done,"" twenty-two-year-old Aileen Kilgore of Brookwood, Alabama, wrote in her diary in January 1944, after enlisting in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. From basic training in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, to her …
Between North and South
The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842-1865
Inbunden, 2001
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EMILY WHARTON SINKLER was only eighteen years old when she began to write to distant relatives, chronicling her experiences on an antebellum cotton plantation. The daughter of prominent Philadelphia lawyer Thomas Wharton, Emily had married Charles Sinkler of South Carolina and moved south to begin …
Southern Women at Vassar
The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882-1916
Inbunden, 2002
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The northern education of two southern women in postbellum America; When sisters Mary and Louisa Poppenheim, daughters of a prominent Charleston, South Carolina, mercantile family, left their childhood home in the 1880s to attend Vassar College in New York, they entered a world that challenged …
Live Your Own Life
The Family Papers of Mary Bayard Clarke, 1854-1886
Inbunden, 2002
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Balancing literary aspiration with gender limitations in the nineteenth-century South; Mary Bayard Clarke (1827-1886) grew up in a North Carolina planter family that revered southern traditions, but she was not a woman to be stymied by conventional expectations. A writer of ambition and ability, …
Roman Years of a South Carolina Artist
Caroline Carson's Letters Home, 1872-1892
Av William H. Pease, Jane H. Pease
Inbunden, 2003
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Caroline Petigru Carson (1820-1892), the elder daughter of Charleston intellectual James Louis Petigru and sister of the novelist Susan Petigru King, seemed destined from birth for life as a southern plantation mistress. Yet, like her sister, Carson challenged the conventions of nineteenth-century …
Country Women Cope with Hard Times
A Collection of Oral Histories
Av Melissa Walker, Carol Bleser
Inbunden, 2004
471 kr
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This volume tells the stories of women born between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, who grew up on farms, in labour camps and in remote towns during an era when the region's agricultural system changed dramatically.
Echoes from a Distant Frontier
The Brown Sisters' Correspondence from Antebellum Florida
Av James M. Denham, Keith L. Huneycutt
Inbunden, 2004
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Echoes from a Distant Frontier is an edited, annotated selection of the correspondence of Corinna and Ellen Brown, two single women in their twenties, who left a comfortable New England home in 1835 for the Florida frontier. Moving with two aunts and a brother following the deaths of their parents, …
Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910
Inbunden, 2006
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Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating adventures through exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth century. A member of the prominent Sinkler family of Charleston and Philadelphia, …
Forgotten Women
Florida Women's Letters from the Great Depression
Inbunden, 2007
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Rife with palpable misery, the hundreds of letters assembled in ""Forgotten Women"" paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, Florida women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters to …
Dearest Hugh
The Courtship Letters of Gabrielle Drake and Hugh McColl, 1900-1901
Av Suzanne Cameron Linder Hurley
Inbunden, 2008
426 kr
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Dearest Hugh offers a window into courtship during the early twentieth century through a collection of three hundred love letters exchanged between Gabrielle Drake and Hugh McColl from 1900 to 1901, illustrating the hopes and sacrifices of an upper-class couple forging a marriage in a small …
Selected Letters of Anna Heyward Taylor
South Carolina Artist and World Traveler
Av Anna Heyward Taylor, Edmund R. Taylor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
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Heavily illustrated with representative color and black-and-white artwork, the selected correspondence of Anna Heyward Taylor (1879-1956) captures the globe-trotting adventures of an intrepid South Carolina artist and a guiding spirit of the Charleston Renaissance. These letters and articles frame …
Deliver Us from Evil
A Southern Belle in Europe at the Outbreak of World War I
Inbunden, 2011
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On August 1, 1914, as the Great War erupted in Europe and financial and physical resources were realigned toward the war effort, some 120,000 American travelers scattered across the Continent suddenly found themselves in the midst of a vast warzone without means of escape. Among the stranded …
Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910
Av Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq
Häftad, 2010
291 kr
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The international adventures of a southern widow turned patron of historical discovery, Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating episodes in exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth …
Dearest Hugh
The Courtship Letters of Gabrielle Drake and Hugh McColl, 1900-1901
Av Suzanne Cameron Linder Hurley
Häftad, 2012
210 kr
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Dearest Hugh offers a glimpse into what romance and marriage meant for a southern couple at the dawn of our modern age through a collection of some three hundred love letters exchanged between Gabrielle Drake and Hugh McColl from 1900 to 1901. Edited by Suzanne Cameron Linder Hurley, this …
New Southern Woman
The Correspondence of Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson, 1871-1883
Inbunden, 2013
639 kr
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From 1871 to 1883, Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson (1843-1913) composed and saved more than 130 letters documenting family and domestic life in Columbus, Mississippi. A New Southern Woman features 80 letters from Neilson's correspondence, providing readers with a glimpse into the recovery of domestic …
Southern Women in the Progressive Era
A Reader
Av Giselle Roberts, Melissa Walker
Inbunden, 2019
696 kr
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Riveting, revealing stories from women of all walks of southern life taking on the challenges of the Progressive Era.From the 1890s to the end of World War I, the reformers who called themselves progressives helped transform the United States, and many women filled their ranks. Through solo efforts …
