Mary Edwards Bryan : her early life and works /
Mary Edwards Bryan, a Victorian-era southern woman, was an influential and well-respected writer during her time. Brown and Rivers hope to reintroduce her to the world with this "literary" biography --
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2015]
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- "Fictitious prosperity": Florida, to 1842
- "More poetical than true" : Florida, 1842-1850
- "A shrinking timidity" : Georgia, 1850-1854
- "The sleuth-hound of slander": Louisiana, 1854-1855
- "A vent for ... abundant energies": Georgia, 1854-1858
- "A harvest of fame": Georgia, 1859-1860
- "The delusions of hope" : Louisiana, 1860-1863
- "Hushed as an awe-stricken child": Georgia, 1863
- "When at last the 'cruel war was over'": Louisiana, 1863-1868
- "A whirlwind accompanied all this": Florida, 1868
- "Regretting that we did not choose the other way": Louisiana, 1869-1875
- "I am a bit of a pharisee": Georgia, 1875-1880
- Afterword: "Sensational and dramatic enough": 1880-1913.