A book that will greatly enhance understanding of the situation of single women in the nineteenth-century South, An Evening When Alone presents the journals of four very different women who, although their lives were worlds apart, each lived and wrote in the South during the years 1827-67. Intimate and revealing, these journals provide refreshing insight into the joys and travails of "ordinary" single women in the nineteenth century South: courtship, disappointed love, illness, the gratifications and pains of female friendship, the grief of the Civil War, the ambivalences of family life, and the difficulty and consolation of religion.
- ISBN13 9780813914404
- Publish Date 30 July 1993 (first published 29 July 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Virginia Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 460
- Language English