num_pages: 243
description: Rife with palpable misery, the hundreds of letters assembled in Forgotten Women paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, Florida women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters to agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials asking for relief assistance. Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the immediacy and intensity of their plight.
language: English
title: Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters during the Great Depression
titlecomplete: Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters during the Great Depression (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South)
ratings_count: 2
series: Women's Diaries and Letters of the South
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Florida Book Award
category: Non Fiction - Bronze
publisher: University of South Carolina Press