A Girl's Life in New Orleans: The Diary of Ella Grunewald, 1884–1886 (Hill Collection: Holdings of the Lsu Libraries) - Hardcover

Hans C. Rasmussen (author) & Gina Costello (afterword By)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807179388 ISBN 13: 9780807179383

Publisher: LSU Press, 2023

Synopsis

A Girl's Life in New Orleans presents the diary of Ella Grunewald, an upper-middle-class teenager in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. Grunewald, the daughter of one of the Crescent City's leading music dealers, used her journal to record the major events of her day-to-day life, documenting family, friendships, schooling, musical education, and social activities. Her entries frequently describe illness, death, and other tragedies. Though attentive to the city's classical music scene, Grunewald also recounts theater shows, Carnival balls and parades, Catholic religious observances, and the World's Fair that the city hosted in 1884.

Expertly annotated and introduced by Hans Rasmussen, Grunewald's journal is a rare window on the life of a young woman in the South between 1884 and 1886. Adding depth to that account, Rasmussen includes a shorter journal Grunewald kept of her family's travels in Italy and Germany in the spring of 1890. In it, she describes visits to Catholic churches, museums, Roman ruins, and other tourist attractions. Tragically, Grunewald contracted malaria during the latter part of the journey and died overseas at age twenty-two.

About this title

About the Author

Hans Rasmussen is head of Special Collections Technical Services at LSU Libraries in Baton Rouge.

Edition details

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807179388
• ISBN 13: 9780807179383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200