Title: Fortune and misery
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: American Authors, Authors, American, Biography, Fiction, Journalists, Women and literature, Social life and customs, City and town life, Manners and customs, History
Places: Louisiana, New Orleans, New Orleans (La.), United States
People: Sallie Rhett Roman (1844-1921)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3535.O5396 A6 1999