The plantation mistress woman's world in the old South /
This study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers a serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, the author sets before us the...
| Main Author: | Clinton, Catherine, 1952- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Pantheon Books,
[1982]
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| Physical Description: |
xix, 331 pages ; 25 cm. Also issued online. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
CMU Main Books 3rd Floor
| Location | Call Number: | Status |
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| CMU Main Books 3rd Floor | HQ1438.A13 C58 1982 |
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