| Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War Contributor(s): Page, Thomas Nelson (Author) |
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ISBN: 1419147951 ISBN-13: 9781419147951 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: There were the little girls in their great sunbonnets, often sewed on to preserve the wonderful peach-blossom complexions, with their small female companions playing about the yard or garden, running with and wishing they were boys, and getting half scoldings from mammy for being tomboys and tearing their aprons and dresses. There, in the shade, near her "house," was the mammy with her assistants, her little charge in her arms, sleeping in her ample lap, or toddling about her, with broken, half-formed phrases, better understood than framed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 975.503 |
| Physical Information: 0.12" H x 7.48" W x 9.28" (0.22 lbs) 48 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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