The author, of Southern family and background, became a respected faculty member at Vassar College after the War Between the States. In the first person narrative to her granddaughter in the form of a letter, she tells of her family's history and proceeds to explain to her granddaughter -and in the long run -to the world, in what became a printed book of her early life on an archetypal Southern plantation in which the owners assumed a patriarchal...
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