Country Women Cope with Hard Times: A Collection of Oral Histories

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Country Women Cope with Hard Times Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South Carol Bleser, Series Editor A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary Edited by Gerald Schwartz A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863–1866 Edited by Ernest McPherson Lander, Jr., and Charles M. McGee, Jr. The Shattered Dream: The Day Book of Margaret Sloan, 1900–1902 Edited by Harold Woodell The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman Edited by John S. Hughes A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860–1863 Edited by Jean V. Berlin A Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860–1861 Edited by John Hammond Moore Lucy Breckinridge of Grove Hill: The Journal of a Virginia Girl, 1862–1864 Edited by Mary D. Robertson George Washington’s Beautiful Nelly: The Letters of Eleanor Parke Curtis Lewis to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, 1794–1851 Edited by Patricia Brady A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863–1888 Edited by Mary D. Robertson A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856–1876 Edited by Wilma King Best Companions: Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia, and Newport, 1839–1846 Edited by Eliza Cope Harrison Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women’s Army Corps, 1944–1945 Aileen Kilgore Henderson From the Pen of a She-Rebel: The Civil War Diary of Emilie Riley McKinley Edited by Gordon A. Cotton Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842–1865 Edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq A Southern Woman of Letters: The Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson Edited by Rebecca Grant Sexton Southern Women at Vassar: The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882–1916 Edited by Joan Marie Johnson Live Your Own Life: The Family Papers of Mary Bayard Clarke, 1854–1886 Edited by Terrell Armistead Crow and Mary Moulton Barden The Roman Years of a South Carolina Artist: Caroline Carson’s Letters Home, 1872–1892 Edited with an Introduction by William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease Walking by Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimké, 1828–1835 Edited by Charles Wilbanks Country Women Cope with Hard Times: A Collection of Oral Histories Edited by Melissa Walker
Country Women Cope with Hard Times A Collection of Oral Histories Edited by Melissa Walker The University of South Carolina Press © 2004 University of South Carolina Cloth edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2004 Paperback edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2010 Ebook edition published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press, 2012 www.sc.edu/uscpress 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition as follows: Country women cope with hard times : a collection of oral histories / edited by Melissa Walker. p. cm. — (Women's diaries and letters of the South) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-57003-524-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Rural women—South Carolina—Diaries. 2. Rural women—Tennessee— Diaries. 3. Rural women—South Carolina—Correspondence. 4. Rural women —Tennessee—Correspondence. 5. Depressions—1929—South Carolina. 6. Depressions—1929—Tennessee. 7. South Carolina—Rural conditions. 8. Tennessee—Rural conditions. 9. Oral history. I. Walker, Melissa, 1962– II. Series. HQ1438.S6 C68 2004 305.4'092'2757—dc22 2003020071 ISBN: 978-1-61117-215-7 (ebook) Dedicated to the honor of my grandmother Evelyn Petree Lewellyn And in memory of my grandmother Maude Lambert Walker This page intentionally left blank ...