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Country women cope with hard times : a collection of oral histories / edited by Melissa Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women's diaries and letters of the South
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions--1929--South Carolina.
- Depressions.
- Depressions--1929--Tennessee.
- Oral history.
- Rural women--South Carolina--Correspondence.
- Rural women.
- Rural women--South Carolina--Diaries.
- Rural women--Tennessee--Correspondence.
- Rural women--Tennessee--Diaries.
- South Carolina--Rural conditions.
- South Carolina.
- Tennessee--Rural conditions.
- Tennessee.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While the women detail the difficulties of their existence--the drought years, early freezes, low crop prices, and tenant farming--they recall the good times and the neighborly assistance of well-developed mutual aid networks, of which women were the primary participants.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Farm Women and Their Stories
- ONE: Elizabeth Fox McMahan
- TWO: Hettie Lawson
- THREE: Wilma Cope Williamson
- FOUR: LaVerne Farmer
- FIVE: French Carpenter Clark
- SIX: Korola Neville Lee
- SEVEN: Mary Evelyn Russell Lane
- EIGHT: Peggy Delozier Jones
- NINE: Ethel Davis
- TEN: Mabel Love
- ELEVEN: Kate Simmons
- TWELVE: Evelyn Petree Lewellyn
- THIRTEEN: Martha Alice West
- FOURTEEN: Ruth Hatchette McBrayer
- FIFTEEN: Mary Webb Quinn
- SIXTEEN: Dorothy Skinner and Virginia Skinner Harris
- SEVENTEEN: Afterword: Reflections on Interpreting Oral History
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613910639
- 9781283598187
- 1283598183
- 9781611172157
- 1611172152
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