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The novel follows a romance between a free-spirited, intellectual southerner, Blythe Herndon, and a former abolitionist and Union soldier, Roger Ellis. Blythe initially sees marriage to an outsider as an escape from the strictures of southern society but soon realizes that even Roger will expect a certain deference from his wife. Over the course of the novel she also comes to acknowledge her inability, despite a desire to be free from convention, to accept Roger's egalitarian views on race relations, his notions of free love, and his past affair with a married woman.

About the author

Jane Turner Censer is a professor of history at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Author of North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800-1860, she was an editor of the highly acclaimed Papers of Frederick Law Olmstead.

Summary

Originally published in 1878, this novel marked the emergence of a feminist critique of southern society. It follows the romance between a free-spirited, intellectual woman and a Union soldier, and broke new ground in its representation of a wife's "duties" and the inclusion of black characters.

Product details

• Authors: Sherwood Bonner, Katherine Sherwood Bonner Mcdowell
• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1997
• EAN: 9781570031847
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-184-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 445 g
• Series: Southern Classics (Univ of Sou; Southern Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature