Journal of a Georgia woman, 1870-1872
By: Eliza Frances Andrews ; edited, with an introduction, by S. Kittrell Rushing.
Contributors: Rushing, S. Kittrell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Andrews, Eliza Frances, b. 1840 -- Diaries.; Women -- Georgia -- Wilkes County -- Diaries.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Georgia -- Wilkes County.; Upper class -- Georgia -- Wilkes County -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.; Wilkes County (Ga.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.; Wilkes County (Ga.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Wilkes County (Ga.) -- Biography.
Genres: Diaries.; Biography.
Description: "Eliza Frances "Fanny" Andrews (1840-1931) was born into southern aristocracy in Washington, Georgia. The acclaimed author of Journal of a Georgia Girl: 1864-1865, she was an exceptional woman who went on to become a journalist, writer, teacher, and internationally recognized botanist. In 1870, as Andrews was working on her first novel, she embarked on a visit to wealthy "Yankee kin" in Newark, New Jersey.

The trip had a profound effect on her life, as she was astonished by the contrasts between North and South. This previously unpublished segment of Andrews's writings begins with her New Jersey sojourn and ends with her mother's death in 1872. It is remarkable for the light it sheds on the social and economic transformations of the Reconstruction era, particularly as they were perceived and experienced by a southern woman."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131) and index.