Fortune and misery : Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans : a biographical portrait and selected fiction, 1891-1920 / [compiled by] Nancy Dixon.

Author
Roman, Sallie Rhett, 1844-1921 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1999], ©1999.
Description
xviii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Southern literary studies. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    • Sallie Rhett Roman, daughter of the South Carolina senator Robert Barnwell Rhett, and daughter-in-law of the Louisiana governor Andre Bienvenu Roman, little suspected while she was being groomed as a plantation mistress that fate would lead her to become a single mother of ten donning a newspaper career for survival.
    • An accomplished editorialist and fiction writer for the New Orleans Times-Democrat during the two decades surrounding 1900, Roman never signed her full name to her work and was assumed by readers to be a man.
    • Overshadowed through time by her famous male kin, she now emerges into the light of her own deserved recognition in Fortune and Misery, Nancy Dixon's introduction to Roman that combines a full-length biographical portrait, nine of her more significant pieces of fiction, and a complete bibliography of her works.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-217).
    Contents
    • Introduction: The Life and Writing of Sallie Rhett Roman
    • Mrs. Grundy: An Etching
    • The Madman's Home
    • La Misere: A Midsummer Sketch in New Orleans
    • La Fortune
    • Kansas
    • To See the Carnival
    • Alma's Guest
    • A Wedding in Spring
    • Tonie: A Novella.
    ISBN
    0807122963 (cloth : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    99023173
    OCLC
    41108707
    RCP
    C - S
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