Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South

by Joan E. Cashin

We know little about the lives and thoughts of white women in the antebellum South, and for many years students of the period have waited for a broadly based sampling of their writings. In Our Common Affairs, supplying this need, Joan E. Cashin has assembled 125 documents that explore the lives of these women in their own words. Cashin has selected excerpts from letters, diaries, wills, recipe books, and advice literaturemost never before publishedand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801853060
• ISBN13: 9780801853067
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"