A Girl's Life in New Orleans presents the diary of Ella Grunewald,
an upper-middle-class teenager in New Orleans at the end of the
nineteenth century. Grunewald, the daughter of one of the Crescent
City's leading music dealers, used her journal to record the major
events of her day-to-day life, documenting family, friendships,
schooling, musical education, and social activities. Her entries
frequently describe illness, death, and other tragedies. Though
attentive to the city's classical music scene, Grunewald also
recounts theater shows, Carnival balls and parades, Catholic
religious observances, and the World's Fair that the city hosted in
1884. Expertly annotated and introduced by Hans Rasmussen,
Grunewald's journal is a rare window on the life of a young woman
in the South between 1884 and 1886. Adding depth to that account,
Rasmussen includes a shorter journal Grunewald kept of her family's
travels in Italy and Germany in the spring of 1890. In it, she
describes visits to Catholic churches, museums, Roman ruins, and
other tourist attractions. Tragically, Grunewald contracted malaria
during the latter part of the journey and died overseas at age
twenty-two.
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