When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte

LeConte, Emma

 
9780803281516: When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte
ISBN 10: 080328151X ISBN 13: 9780803281516
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

"I wonder if the new year is to bring us new miseries and sufferings," seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte wrote in her diary on December 31, 1864. In fact, the worst was yet to come. Her later entries portray the city of Columbia, South Carolina, like much of the South, under the grip of Sherman's army. No reader of this diary is likely to forget the defiant, well-bred Emma, who describes a family's anxieties and brave attempts to get on with life while the Civil War rages around them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

In a new foreword to the Bison Books edition, Anne Firor Scott, a professor of history at Duke University whose writings include The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830–1930, rounds out the story of the remarkable Emma LeConte and the life she made after her familiar world ended.

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The Diary offers a new insight into the civilian side of the war's last bitter days in the South. It is an impressive literary creation that reveals some of the characteristic social structures and attitudes of the southern upper class at midcentury. It tells the reader a good deal about certain kinds of southern women.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080328151X
ISBN 13 
9780803281516
Einband
Tageskalender
Anzahl der Seiten
124
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