Mary Edwards Bryan : her early life and works / Canter Brown Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813055565 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mary Edwards Bryan : her early life and works.DDC classification:
  • 813/.4 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PS1148.B7 Z54 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- "Fictitious prosperity": Florida, to 1842 -- "More poetical than true" : Florida, 1842-1850 -- "A shrinking timidity" : Georgia, 1850-1854 -- "The sleuth-hound of slander": Louisiana, 1854-1855 -- "A vent for ... abundant energies": Georgia, 1854-1858 -- "A harvest of fame": Georgia, 1859-1860 -- "The delusions of hope" : Louisiana, 1860-1863 -- "Hushed as an awe-stricken child": Georgia, 1863 -- "When at last the 'cruel war was over'": Louisiana, 1863-1868 -- "A whirlwind accompanied all this": Florida, 1868 -- "Regretting that we did not choose the other way": Louisiana, 1869-1875 -- "I am a bit of a pharisee": Georgia, 1875-1880 -- Afterword: "Sensational and dramatic enough": 1880-1913.
Summary: Mary Edwards Bryan, a Victorian-era southern woman, was an influential and well-respected writer during her time. Brown and Rivers hope to reintroduce her to the world with this "literary" biography -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- "Fictitious prosperity": Florida, to 1842 -- "More poetical than true" : Florida, 1842-1850 -- "A shrinking timidity" : Georgia, 1850-1854 -- "The sleuth-hound of slander": Louisiana, 1854-1855 -- "A vent for ... abundant energies": Georgia, 1854-1858 -- "A harvest of fame": Georgia, 1859-1860 -- "The delusions of hope" : Louisiana, 1860-1863 -- "Hushed as an awe-stricken child": Georgia, 1863 -- "When at last the 'cruel war was over'": Louisiana, 1863-1868 -- "A whirlwind accompanied all this": Florida, 1868 -- "Regretting that we did not choose the other way": Louisiana, 1869-1875 -- "I am a bit of a pharisee": Georgia, 1875-1880 -- Afterword: "Sensational and dramatic enough": 1880-1913.

Mary Edwards Bryan, a Victorian-era southern woman, was an influential and well-respected writer during her time. Brown and Rivers hope to reintroduce her to the world with this "literary" biography -- Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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