| When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte Contributor(s): LeConte, Emma (Author), Miers, Earl Schenck (Editor), Scott, Anne Firor (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 080328151X ISBN-13: 9780803281516 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1987 Annotation: The Diary offers a new insight into the civilian side of the war's last bitter days in the South. It is an impressive literary creation that reveals some of the characteristic social structures and attitudes of the southern upper class at midcentury. It tells the reader a good deal about certain kinds of southern women. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 87005937 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.34" W x 7.98" (0.40 lbs) 124 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "I wonder if the new year is to bring us new miseries and sufferings," seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte wrote in her diary on December 31, 1864. In fact, the worst was yet to come. Her later entries portray the city of Columbia, South Carolina, like much of the South, under the grip of Sherman's army. No reader of this diary is likely to forget the defiant, well-bred Emma, who describes a family's anxieties and brave attempts to get on with life while the Civil War rages around them. In a new foreword to the Bison Books edition, Anne Firor Scott, a professor of history at Duke University whose writings include The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930, rounds out the story of the remarkable Emma LeConte and the life she made after her familiar world ended. |