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Country People in the New South Tennessee's Upper Cumberland (review)

Country People in the New South Tennessee's Upper Cumberland (review) Yet Maria for all her chattiness shows a cool reserve in regard to her own af- fairs. She veils much of her own story, including the events that led up to each of her marriages, the first a union of which her parents apparently did not approve. Thus, the reader is surprised when the letter writer almost laughingly records a neighbor's judgment of herself: "'Maria,' said she, 'is a very good girl-- but I think she courts attention rather too much.'" Amidst the terseness and reserve, Maria does admit some of the trials of womanhood that she experienced. Throughout much of her life, Maria was the dutiful daughter who tried to smooth family relations. After her first husband's death, she returned to live with her parents and strove for the resignation that her Presbyterian piety and even her beloved sister enjoined upon her. There she cheerfully taught her nieces and nephews and took on the responsibilities of managing that household after the death of her mother. In the end she found the life of a southern matron hard. Upset when the overseer beat a slave, leaving her face "bloody and swelled," Maria told her sister "Oh! how great http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Country People in the New South Tennessee's Upper Cumberland (review)

Lienesch, Michael
Southern Cultures , Volume 4 (2) – Jan 4, 1998
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Yet Maria for all her chattiness shows a cool reserve in regard to her own af- fairs. She veils much of her own story, including the events that led up to each of her marriages, the first a union of which her parents apparently did not approve. Thus, the reader is surprised when the letter writer almost laughingly records a neighbor's judgment of herself: "'Maria,' said she, 'is a very good girl-- but I think she courts attention rather too much.'" Amidst the terseness and reserve, Maria does admit some of the trials of womanhood that she experienced. Throughout much of her life, Maria was the dutiful daughter who tried to smooth family relations. After her first husband's death, she returned to live with her parents and strove for the resignation that her Presbyterian piety and even her beloved sister enjoined upon her. There she cheerfully taught her nieces and nephews and took on the responsibilities of managing that household after the death of her mother. In the end she found the life of a southern matron hard. Upset when the overseer beat a slave, leaving her face "bloody and swelled," Maria told her sister "Oh! how great

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Published: Jan 4, 1998

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