uscpress.com - Women's Diaries and Letters of the South https://uscpress.com/ A Southern Woman of Letters https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534009/A-Southern-Woman-of-Letters
The telling words of a southern literary woman and a partisan of the Confederacy

Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909) was one of nineteenth-century America's most popular novelists and…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Southern Women in the Progressive Era https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534727/Southern-Women-in-the-Progressive-Era
Riveting, revealing stories from women of all walks of southern life taking on the challenges of the Progressive Era

From the 1890s to the end of World War I, the reformers who called t…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 A Dream and a Chisel https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534726/A-Dream-and-a-Chisel
A portrait of a young artist's formative years studying sculpture in Paris, recounted in her own words

Angela Gregory is considered by many the doyenne of Louisiana sculpture and is a n…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 A New Southern Woman https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534355/A-New-Southern-Woman
From 1871 to 1883, Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson (1843-1913) composed and saved more than 130 letters documenting family and domestic life in Columbus, Mississippi. A New Southern Woman features 80…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Deliver Us from Evil https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534274/Deliver-Us-from-Evil
The harrowing firsthand account of how a European holiday turned into a flight for survival for a U.S. Congressman's daughter

On August 1, 1914, as the Great War erupted in Europe and f…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Looking for the New Deal https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534111/Looking-for-the-New-Deal
A poignant collection of hundreds of pleas for aid from Washington and Tallahassee

Rife with palpable misery and often pleading with desperate urgency, the hundreds of letters assembled…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534101/Elizabeth-Sinkler-Coxes-Tales-from-the-Grand-Tour-1890-1910
The international adventures of a southern widow turned patron of historical discovery

Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating episo…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 A Faithful Heart https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534049/A-Faithful-Heart
A record of transition to an uneasy peace

Emmala Reed (1839-1893) may not have watched the unfolding of the Civil War from the front lines, but she nonetheless witnessed the collapse of…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Echoes from a Distant Frontier https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534044/Echoes-from-a-Distant-Frontier
Keen insights on Florida history and a rarely documented frontier settlement

Echoes from a Distant Frontier is an edited, annotated selection of the correspondence of Corinna and Ellen…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Country Women Cope with Hard Times https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534038/Country-Women-Cope-with-Hard-Times
Rare glimpses into the hardscrabble lives of rural Southern women and a model for oral history practice

"It was hard times," French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echo…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700