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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 4: the New South: Lanier (search)
therner was convinced that the negro would not work in freedom. Two books give unforgettable pictures of the efforts of the planters to meet the new industrial situation. Ten years on a Georgia plantation by the daughter of Fanny Kemble, Frances Butler Leigh, details the childishness of the negro under the novel conditions of freedom. Mrs. Leigh can hardly be claimed as a Southern author, but Susan Dabney Smedes (1840—) must take high rank as one. Her Memorials of a Southern planter is an arMrs. Leigh can hardly be claimed as a Southern author, but Susan Dabney Smedes (1840—) must take high rank as one. Her Memorials of a Southern planter is an artless but absorbing picture of a class made extinct by the war. Without any of the theatrical effectiveness common in the older Southern prose, she relates in simple, dignified words the history of her father, Thomas Dabney, a planter of Mississippi. The war brought out in him such lofty nobility as is seldom seen in actual life. On laying down the volume Gladstone exclaimed Let no man say, with this book before him, that the age of chivalry is gone, or that Thomas Dabney was not worthy to sit
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
ier), 50, 283 Lea, I., 173 Leaflets of memory, 172, 175 Lear, Edward, 408 Leaves of Grass, 258, 264 n., 265, 267, 270, 271, 272 Leaves from Margaret Smith's journal in the province of Massachusetts Bay, 52 Lee, R. E., 281, 290, 306, 308, 316 Lee, 308 Lee to the Rear, 308 Legend of Monte del Diablo, 378 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 401 Legends and lyrics, 311 Legends of New England, in prose and verse, 45 Lehigh University, 393 Leicester, Earl of, 140 Leigh, Frances Butler, 314 Leland, Charles Godfrey, 167 Lenore, 67 Leslie, Eliza, 398, 399 Letter to B——（Poe), 63 Letters of Major Jack Downing, 151 Lewis, Mrs., 66 Lewis Carroll. See Dodgson, C. L. Liberator, 189 Liberty Bell, by friends of freedom, the, 174 Library of American biography, the, 117 Library of Southern literature, the, 304 Life and correspondence of Joseph Reed, 118 Life and Adventures of Dr. Didimus Duckworth, A. N. Q. to which is added the History of a Steam<