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A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition

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Availability:In StockContributor:Barbara L. BellowsSeries:Southern Literary StudiesPublish date:2006-06-21Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807131633ISBN-10:807131636UPC:9780807131633Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Women Authors, AmericanSize:9.32 x 6.72 x 1.17 inchesWeight:1.3911Product ID:SC9JKXKGBA

A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition

Josephine Pinckney (1895--1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Her flair for storytelling and trenchant social commentary found expression in poetry, five novels -- Three O'Clock Dinner was the most successful -- stories, essays, and reviews. Pinckney belonged to a distinguished South...

Series: Southern Literary Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807131633ISBN-10:807131636UPC:9780807131633Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Women Authors, AmericanSize:9.32 x 6.72 x 1.17 inchesWeight:1.3911Product ID:SC9JKXKGBA

Barbara L. Bellows is the author of Benevolence among Slaveholders: Caring for the Poor in Charleston, 1760--1860 and coauthor of God and General Longstreet: Essays on the Lost Cause and the Southern Mind. Formerly a professor at Middlebury College, she is a writer and a historian who divides her time between her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, and Pound Ridge, New York.


Publisher: LSU Press

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