Country Life in Georgia In the Days of My Youth Also Address Before Georgia Legislature Women's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions
by Rebecca Latimer Felton
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None as Issued
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About This Item
Atlana Georgia: Index Printing Comapny, 1919. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/None as Issued. VG/1st ed. Rebecca Latimer Felton was a woman unique to her times. Born in 1835 in Dekalb County Georgia, she was a writer and an ardent supporter of many Progress Era reforms. Her nemisis was the noted historian and educator Mildred Lewis Rutherford, who was anti-sufferage even though she was ambitious herself and did'nt mind the spotlight of success shining on her. The wife of a powerful politican in Georgia; Mrs. Felton ran his campaigns. Mrs. Felton was a supporter of white supremacy and felt that lynching was a way to control the black male population. This copy of her autobiography has very old water stains to the last third of the pages at the top of the page margins. Tighly and securely bound in maroon buckram with gold lettering on the spine, this copy has been rebound by the National Library Bindery some time early --the forties or fiflies. Some light spots on covers, but no wear. No foxing or soiling. 299 pages, First Edition. Table of Contents in back of book Picture of author frontis with title page. Nice sturdy well preserved copy at a fairly modest price.
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- Books About The South
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- 0021783
- Title
- Country Life in Georgia In the Days of My Youth Also Address Before Georgia Legislature Women's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions
- Author
- Rebecca Latimer Felton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Index Printing Comapny
- Place of Publication
- Atlana Georgia
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE, FIRST EDITION, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, GEORGIA HISTORY, GEORGIANA, PROGESSIVE ERA,
- Bookseller catalogs
- History--Civil and Otherwise; Georgia;
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BOOKS ABOUT THE SOUTH is located on the Georgia Coast in Darien, Georgia's second oldest city. I specialize in books from the Civil War Period through the 20th century from and about the entire Southern Region of the United States, with a special interest in Georgia History.
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