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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press
ISBN-10081391440X
ISBN-139780813914404
eBay Product ID (ePID)18038817014
Product Key Features
Number of Pages460 Pages
Publication NameEvening When Alone : Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827-67
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
SubjectUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Women's Studies
TypeTextbook
AuthorMichael O'brien
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.6 in
Item Weight35.8 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN92-039514
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingAn
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.48/9652
SynopsisIntimate 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., A book that will greatly enhance understanding of the situation of single women in the nineteenth-century South, An Evening When Alone presents the journals of four very different women who, although their lives were worlds apart, each lived and wrote in the South during the years 1827-67. Intimate and revealing, these journals provide refreshing insight into the joys and travails of "ordinary" single 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.