Fortune and misery
Subtitle: Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans : a biographical portrait and selected fiction, 1891-1920
By: [compiled by] Nancy Dixon.
Contributors: Dixon, Nancy, 1955-
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Roman, Sallie Rhett, 1844-1921.; Women and literature -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Journalists -- United States -- Biography.; New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.; New Orleans (La.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.; Fiction.
Description: Sallie Rhett Roman, daughter of the South Carolina senator Robert Barnwell Rhett, and daughter-in-law of the Louisiana governor Andre Bienvenu Roman, little suspected while she was being groomed as a plantation mistress that fate would lead her to become a single mother of ten donning a newspaper career for survival.

An accomplished editorialist and fiction writer for the New Orleans Times-Democrat during the two decades surrounding 1900, Roman never signed her full name to her work and was assumed by readers to be a man.

Overshadowed through time by her famous male kin, she now emerges into the light of her own deserved recognition in Fortune and Misery, Nancy Dixon's introduction to Roman that combines a full-length biographical portrait, nine of her more significant pieces of fiction, and a complete bibliography of her works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-217).