Fortune and misery : Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans : a biographical portrait and selected fiction, 1891-1920 / [compiled by] Nancy Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roman, Sallie Rhett, 1844-1921.

Contributor:

Dixon, Nancy, 1955-

Series:

Southern literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life.

Women and literature.

History.

New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

New Orleans (La.).

Women and literature--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century.

City and town life--Louisiana--New Orleans--Fiction.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

United States.

Roman, Sallie Rhett, 1844-1921.

Roman, Sallie Rhett.

New Orleans (La.)--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xviii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1999]

Summary:

Sallie Rhett Roman, daughter of the South Carolina senator Robert Barnwell Rhett, and daughter-in-law of the Louisiana governor Andre Bienvenu Roman, little suspected while she was being groomed as a plantation mistress that fate would lead her to become a single mother of ten donning a newspaper career for survival. An accomplished editorialist and fiction writer for the New Orleans Times-Democrat during the two decades surrounding 1900, Roman never signed her full name to her work and was assumed by readers to be a man. Overshadowed through time by her famous male kin, she now emerges into the light of her own deserved recognition in Fortune and Misery, Nancy Dixon's introduction to Roman that combines a full-length biographical portrait, nine of her more significant pieces of fiction, and a complete bibliography of her works.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-217).

ISBN:

0807122963

OCLC:

41108707