Historical Biography - United States - General & Miscellaneous, U.S. Authors - 20th Century - Literary Biography, Journalists - News & Media Biography
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Overview
Sallie 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.Book Details
Published
July 1, 1999
Publisher
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1999.
Pages
218
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780807122969