List of Images Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories, and Writing History ‘Everything Is So Different Here’: Changing Cultural Landscapes An Identity in Transit: From ‘True Woman’ to ‘Southern Lady’ Familial Relations: North and South Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the Confederacy Reconstructing Southern Womanhood Postscript Notes Bibliography

REBECCA FRASER carried out her doctoral work at the University of Warwick, UK. She is currently a lecturer of American History and Culture in the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.