Fortune and Misery: Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans : a Biographical Portrait and Selected Fiction, 1891-1920Sallie Rhett Roman, daughter of the South Carolina senator Robert Barnwell Rhett, and daughter-in-law of the Louisiana governor Andre Bienvenu Roman, little suspected while she was being groomed as a plantation mistress that fate would lead her to become a single mother of ten donning a newspaper career for survival. An accomplished editorialist and fiction writer for the New Orleans Times-Democrat during the two decades surrounding 1900, Roman never signed her full name to her work and was assumed by readers to be a man. Overshadowed through time by her famous male kin, she now emerges into the light of her own deserved recognition in Fortune and Misery, Nancy Dixon's introduction to Roman that combines a full-length biographical portrait, nine of her more significant pieces of fiction, and a complete bibliography of her works. |
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| Title | Fortune and Misery: Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans : a Biographical Portrait and Selected Fiction, 1891-1920 Southern literary studies |
| Authors | Sallie Rhett Roman, Nancy Dixon |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Louisiana State University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0807122963, 9780807122969 |
| Length | 217 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Women Authors |
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