An Evening When Alone : Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827-67

Michael O'Brien

ISBN 10: 081391440X / ISBN 13: 9780813914404

Published by University Of Virginia Press Jul 1993, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Evening When Alone : Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827-67
• Publisher: University Of Virginia Press Jul 1993
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081391440X
• ISBN 13: 9780813914404
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 245W x 161H x 42D millimeters 245 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 42 millimeters depth

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Michael O'Brien is Phillip R. Shriver Professor of History at Miami University and Senior Mellon Scholar in American History at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Rethinking the South: Essays in Intellectual History; The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941; and A Character of Hugh Legare.