In Joy and in Sorrow
Subtitle: Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 11, 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780195060485
First sentence: "WRITING IS a delightful invention," Margaret Izard Manigault wrote in 1811, . . . and the security which a little wafer affords to an intercourse of the most secret kind is a striking instance of the advantage of civilization.