An Evening When Alone Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827-67 |
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| Editor:
| O'Brien, Michael |
| Series title: | Publications of the Southern Texts Society Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-1440-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1993 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $99.00 |
Book Description:
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Intimate and revealing, these journals provide refreshing insight into the joys and travails of "ordinarysingle women in the nineteenth century South: courtship, disappointed love, illness, the gratifications and pains of female friendship, the grief of the Civil War, the ambivalences of family life, and the difficulty and consolation of religion.
Intimate and revealing, these journals provide refreshing insight into the joys and travails of "ordinarysingle women in the nineteenth century South: courtship, disappointed love, illness, the gratifications and pains of female friendship, the grief of the Civil War, the ambivalences of family life, and the difficulty and consolation of religion.