All Things Altered : Women in the Wake of Civil War and Reconstruction

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Women--Southern States--History--19th century.

Women--Southern States--History.

Women--History--19th century--Southern States.

Women.

Local Subjects:

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Women--Southern States--History--19th century.

Women--Southern States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (668 p.)

Other Title:

All Things Altered

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few readers of Margaret Mitchell''s Gone with the Wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed Scarlett O''Hara tried to rebuild Tara after the Civil War ended. This book examines the problems that Southern women faced during the Reconstruction Era, in Part I as mothers, wives, daughters or sisters of men burdened with financial difficulties and the radical Republican regime, and in Part II with specific illustrations of their tribulations through the letters and diaries of five different women. A lonely widow with young children, Sally Randle Perry is struggling to get her life back togethe

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; MANY VOICES; 1; The Long War Ends; 2; Gloomy Prospects Ahead; 3; A World Rife with Changes; 4; Help Wanted; 5; The Rocky Road to Reconciliation; 6; The Radicals and Reconstruction; 7; Coping with a World Out of Control; 8; New Dimensions for Women; Part II; FIVE WOMEN; 9; Susan Darden: Life in Postwar Mississippi; 10; Virginia Smith Aiken: "A New Order of Things"; 11; Anna Logan: From Affluence to Desperation; 12; Jo Gillis: Preacher's Wife; 13; Sally Perry: Plaintive Cries of Pain; Epilogue; Chronology of the Reconstruction Era; Notes; Bibliography

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ISBN:

1-4766-0392-8

OCLC:

891447380