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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
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1999], ©1999.
Description
xviii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
New Orleans (La.)
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Social life and customs
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Fiction
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Women and literature
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Louisiana
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New Orleans
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History
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20th century
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City and town life
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Louisiana
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New Orleans
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Fiction
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Authors, American
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20th century
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Biography
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Journalists
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United States
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Biography
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Roman, Sallie Rhett 1844-1921
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New Orleans (La.)
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Biography
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Related name
Dixon, Nancy, 1955-
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Series
Southern literary studies.
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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.
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ISBN
0807122963 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
99023173
OCLC
41108707
RCP
C - S
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Fortune and misery : Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans : a biographical portrait and selected fiction, 1891-1920 / [compiled by] Nancy Dixon.
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