Vinegar Pie and Chicken Bread
Vinegar Pie and Chicken Bread

Author: Nannie Stillwell Jackson

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 1982-01-01

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 0938626256

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From June 11, 1890, to April 15, 1891, Nannie Stillwell Jackson wrote about the best and meanest moments of her life on a small farm in southeast Arkansas. The combination of dreariness and charm that forms the diary is absorbing. Jackson's experience is rich and awful, as is what we may learn from it about the human spirit on the edges of civilization.

Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices

Author: Rebecca Sharpless

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780807847602

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Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, women's labor was essential. In addition to working untold hours in the fields, women shouldered