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Contains a collection of letters that include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II. This book is filled with unguarded reflections on the events, fashion, food, travel, domestic life, leisure, and the upheaval of war.

DuBose Heyward was a central figure in both the Charleston and Southern Renaissances, although he is often remembered simply as the author of ""Porgy"", the 1925 novel of Charleston. This reader acquaints us with the writings by Heyward that have been overshadowed by ""Porgy"".

The private and public writings in this volume reveal the early relationship between renowned Civil War diarist Sarah Morgan (1842-1909) and her future husband, Francis Warrington Dawson (1840-1889). This is a selection of their letters along with articles that Morgan wrote for the ""Charleston News and Courier"".

Includes diaries that address some of the central questions in the study of southern manhood: how masculine ideals in the Old South were constructed and maintained; how males of different ages and regions resisted, modified, or flouted those ideals; how those ideals could be expressed differently in public and private; and more.

Presents foundational texts in American wine making. This volume collects important writings on viticulture by Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), who is widely considered the finest practicing winemaker of the early United States.

This volume gathers nearly half of some 300 letters written by Mary Telfair of Savannah to her best friend, Mary Few of New York. Telfair was born in 1790 to a wealthy, prominent, slaveholding Savannah family. Few, born in 1790 into equally affluent circumstances, moved with her family from Savannah to New York in 1799. Self-exiled because of their strong antislavery views, the Fews never returned to Georgia, yet they remained close to the Telfairs.The close friendship between Telfair and Few ended only with their deaths in the 1870s. Regular travelers, they met on many occasions. Chiefly, however, they kept in touch through frequent correspondence (Fews letters to Telfair remain undiscovered, and may not have not survived). Wherever Telfair happened to bein Savannah, the northern states, or Europeshe wrote to her friend at least two or three times a month.Telfairs letters offer unique insights into the daily life of her family and the changes wrought by the deaths of so many of its members. The letters also reveal the shared interests and imperatives at the base of her various relationships with elite women, but especially with Mary Few, whom Telfair memorably described as her Siamese Twin. The two women, neither of whom ever wed, nonetheless discussed the rights and obligations of marriage as well as their own state of single blessedness. They also conversed about shared intellectual interestsliterature, lecture topics, womens educationas well as the foibles of common acquaintances. Here is a fascinating, unfamiliar world as revealed in what editor Betty Wood calls one of the most remarkable literary exchanges between women of high social rank in the early national and antebellum United States.

Louisa McCord was a remarkable figure in the intellectual history of antebellum America. A conservative intellectual, she broke the confines of Southern gender roles by owning and managing her own plantation, being politically active in the 1850s, involved in Civil War work, and more.

Intensely autobiographical novels, ""The Captain and the Colonel"" and ""Two Years - or The Way We Lived Then"" are Chesnut's fictionalized accounts of the world as women experienced it in the mid-19th century Civil War South. These short, unfinished novels address a range of subjects related to women.

A collection of six essays by key American Agrarians such as Donald Davidson, Andrew Nelson Lytle and Herman Clarence Nixon. Combined with an introduction, they offer a radically revised view of the Agrarian movement as it was redefined and revived during the New Deal.

A selection of the non-novelistic work of William Gilmore Simms, leading literary figure of the Old South (1806-1870). It features his letters, short fiction, essays, historical writings, poetry and epigrams - all chosen and introduced by Simms scholar, John Caldwell Guilds.