Author : Maria Bryan Harford Connell
Release : 1996
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 274/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Tokens of Affection by : Maria Bryan Harford Connell
Download or read book Tokens of Affection written by Maria Bryan Harford Connell. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refined and remarkably well-educated woman, Maria Bryan began corresponding with her sister when she was sixteen years old. As Carol Bleser points out in her introduction, Bryan travels, reads the popular books of the day, entertains visitors, and makes social calls. At the same time, however, notes Bleser, Bryan's letters belie popular notions about the privileged lives of "typical" planters' daughters in the antebellum South, for she also works at housekeeping, tends the sick at home and in the neighborhood, makes clothes for the family's slaves, and tutors younger siblings.