The Hammonds of Redcliffe
"[Bleser] adds much to [the letters'] intelligibility with her introductions to successive generations and by her brisk rattling of skeletons from family closets."--C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books"Social history that reads like a novel."--Jean Strouse, Newsweek"Surpasses any other such collection of American correspondence that I have ever read."--Louis D. Rubin, Jr., The New Republic"A remarkable collection of family letters....One can sense the broader implications of this particular family's history for anyone interested in the social history of women and of the South."--The New York Times Book Review."Bleser has skillfully edited the Hammond letters, provided excellent introductory essays for each section, and compiled an extensive bibliography and genealogical record.  The Hammonds of Redcliffe is a wonderful walk through the private lifes of a very prominent Southern family.  The book would be invaluable in a seminar on Southern family or social history because it is much more than a collection of letters.  It is family history at its finest."--Teaching History--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.