{"product_id":"recollections-of-a-southern-daughter-a-memoir-by-cornelia-jones-pond-of-liberty-county-hardcover","title":"Recollections of a Southern Daughter: A Memoir by Cornelia Jones Pond of Liberty County - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucinda H. Mackethan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecollections of a Southern Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e recalls life in antebellum Liberty County, Georgia, a time and place best known today through the letters of the Charles Colcock Jones family, published in the classic \u003ci\u003eChildren of Pride\u003c\/i\u003e, and the letters and journals of the Roswell King, Fanny Kemble, and Joseph LeConte families. In this memoir Cornelia Jones Pond gives an eyewitness account of how the privileged life of the southern slaveholding class was destroyed by a whirlwind of change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePond's narrative begins in 1834, when she was born to one of the Old South's wealthiest plantation families. It ends in 1875, when she was a forty-one-year-old minister's wife and the mother of four daughters, trying to make her way in the drastically changed post-Civil War South. She began dictating her memoir to her daughter Anne in 1899, when she was sixty-five years old, and the handwritten manuscript eventually found its way to the Midway Church Museum. This is the first unabridged edition of Pond's memoir, and it includes notes, genealogy, and an extensive introduction by Lucinda H. MacKethan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRecollections of a Southern Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e Pond renders with striking immediacy and affectionate detail not only her personal past but also the tremendous upheavals of history that she witnessed firsthand. Many of the experiences recorded here parallel those depicted in Children of Pride, thus extending our knowledge of the people of this region, their values, their everyday concerns, and the national drama that engulfed their families in the years of civil war.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLUCINDA H. MacKETHAN is a professor of English at North Carolina State University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Arcady\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.52 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757833945376,"sku":"9780820320441","price":59.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5c64f7147b96a0b2ddaecaab150c4dc7.webp?v=1780112899","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/recollections-of-a-southern-daughter-a-memoir-by-cornelia-jones-pond-of-liberty-county-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}