Palmetto leaves
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe ; with introductions by Mary B. Graff and Edith Cowles.
Series: A Florida sand dollar book
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Saint Johns River Valley (Fla.) -- Description and travel; Mandarin (Jacksonville, Fla.) -- Description and travel; Saint Johns River Valley (Fla.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Mandarin (Jacksonville, Fla.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Description: In 1867, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin settled in a small cottage in Mandarin, Florida, overlooking the St. Johns River. She had promised her Boston publisher another novel but was so taken with northeast Florida that she produced instead a series of literary sketches of the land and the people which she submitted in 1872 under the title Palmetto Leaves. Stowe describes life in Florida in the latter half of the nineteenth century-"a tumble-down, wild, panicky kind of life-this general happy-go-luckiness which Florida inculcates." Her idyllic sketches of picnicking, sailing and river touring expeditions and simple stories of events and people in this tropical "winter summer" land became the first unsolicited promotional writing to interest northern tourists in Florida.
Notes: Originally published: Boston : J.F. Osgood and Co., 1873. With new introd.
Includes index.