Mary Telfair to Mary Few - Selected Letters, 1802-1844

Informationen zum Autor BETTY WOOD was a Reader in American History, Girton College, University of Cambridge. Her works include Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1775 and Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1830 (Georgia). Klappentext Gathers 142 letters written by Mary Telfair of Savannah to her best friend Mary Few of New York. Telfair was born in 1791 to a wealthy! slaveholding family. Few! born in 1790! moved with her family from Savannah to New York in 1799. Self-exiled because of their antislavery views! the Fews never returned Georgia yet remained close to the Telfairs. Zusammenfassung This volume gathers nearly half of some 300 letters written by Mary Telfair of Savannah to her best friend, Mary Few of New York. These remarkable literary exchanges between women of high social rank in the early national and antebellum United States address both personal affairs and intellectual interests.

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• Authors: Mary Telfair, Betty (EDT) Wood
• Assisted by: Michael O'Brien (Editor), David Shields (Editor), Betty Wood (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2007
• EAN: 9780820329208
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2920-8
• No. of pages: 317
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Publications of the Southern T; Publications of the Southern T; The Publications of the Southern Texts Society
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography / Autobiography, USA Süden, South Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), HISTORY / United States / 19th Century