When the World Ended - The Diary of Emma LeConte (Paperback)

"I wonder if the new year is to bring us new miseries and sufferings," seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte wrote in her diary on December 31, 1864. In fact, the worst was yet to come. Her later entries portray the city of Columbia, South Carolina, like much of the South, under the grip of Sherman's army. No reader of this diary is likely to forget the defiant, well-bred Emma, who describes a family's anxieties and brave attempts to get on with life while the Civil War rages around them. In a new foreword to the Bison Books edition, Anne Firor Scott, a professor of history at Duke University whose writings include The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930, rounds out the story of the remarkable Emma LeConte and the life she made after her familiar world ended.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1987
First published:	October 1987
Authors:	Emma LeConte
Editors:	Earl Schenck Miers
Foreword by:	Anne Firor Scott
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	124
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-8151-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-8032-8151-X
Barcode:	9780803281516

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