Grace King by Robert B Bush

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Summary

The New Orleans writer Grace King was an intensely loyal daughter of the South. Fostered by bitter memories of the Civil War, her loyalty was kept burning by her family's struggle to regain its wealth and maintain its social position. In this volume, Robert Bush discusses King's life and her art.

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Grace King by Robert B Bush

In this anthology, Robert Bush brings together selections from all the major works of Grace King's literary career -- offering the reader a panorama of New Orleans' history and culture. Bush includes portions of such works as King's Balcony Stories, her novel The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard, and her Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters, as well as historical and biographical works and a selection of her letters and journals.
Robert Bush, former head of research for the Historic New Orleans Collection, is the author of The Louisiana Purchase: A Global Context and editor of The First Constitution of the State of Louisiana and Observations on the Colony of Louisiana from 1796 to 1802. He was formerly an adjunct professor of history at Front Range Community College in Westminster, Colorado, from which he retired, and is currently living in Wickenburg, Arizona.
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ISBN 13 9780807124871
ISBN 10 0807124877
Title Grace King
Author Robert B Bush
Series Southern Literary Studies
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Louisiana State University Press
Year published 1999-03-30
Number of pages 277
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.