{"product_id":"when-the-world-ended-the-diary-of-emma-leconte-paperback","title":"When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEarl Schenck Miers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAnne Firor Scott\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Diary offers a new insight into the civilian side of the war's last bitter days in the South. It is an impressive literary creation that reveals some of the characteristic social structures and attitudes of the southern upper class at midcentury. It tells the reader a good deal about certain kinds of southern women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a new foreword to the Bison Books edition, Anne Firor Scott, a professor of history at Duke University whose writings include \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930\u003c\/i\u003e, rounds out the story of the remarkable Emma LeConte and the life she made after her familiar world ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 7.98 x 5.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1987\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52445459185971,"sku":"9780803281516","price":34.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eDhKaWNDVUV4SU5GWUU2ZEl1aVZOUT09.webp?v=1758963505","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/when-the-world-ended-the-diary-of-emma-leconte-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}