When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte

by Emma LeConte, Earl Schenck Miers (Editor), Anne Firor Scott (Foreword by)

Overview

"I wonder if the new year is to bring us new miseries and sufferings," seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte wrote in her diary on December 31, 1864. In fact, the worst was yet to come. Her later entries portray the city of Columbia, South Carolina, like much of the South, under the grip of Sherman's army. No reader of this diary is likely to forget the defiant, well-bred Emma, who describes a family's anxieties and brave attempts to get on with life while the Civil War rages around them.

In a new foreword to the Bison Books edition, Anne Firor Scott, a professor of history at Duke University whose writings include The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930, rounds out the story of the remarkable Emma LeConte and the life she made after her familiar world ended.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803281516
Publisher:	Nebraska Paperback
Publication date:	10/01/1987
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

In a new foreword to the Bison Books edition, Anne Firor Scott, a professor of history at Duke University whose writings include The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830–1930, rounds out the story of the remarkable Emma LeConte and the life she made after her familiar world ended.