title: Daughters of New Orleans
author: Toth, Emily
description: Four proud women, they blossomed in the Old South's most exotic city, savoring the triumphs of the heart and enduring the tragedies of a nation on the brink of war.  From riverboat gambling dens to gala Creole balls, from tender midnight trysts to heartbreaking dawn farewells, each bold woman was marked by the passionate legacy that joined them all.