Forgotten Women: Florida Women's Letters from the Great Depression (Women's Diaries & Letters of the South)
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Forgotten Women: Florida Women's Letters from the Great Depression (Women's Diaries & Letters of the South)

Forgotten Women: Florida Women's Letters from the Great Depression (Women's Diaries & Letters of the South)

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Elna C. Green (Contributor)  

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Rife with palpable misery, the hundreds of letters assembled in ""Forgotten Women"" paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, Florida women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters to agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials asking for relief assistance. Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the immediacy and intensity of their plight. The struggles of many of the women, however, reflect the Depression's extraordinarily devastating impact in Florida, where it followed on the heels of massive hurricanes, a medfly epidemic, and a land bust of monumental dimension. 24 illustrations
Elna C. Green is the Allen Morris Professor of History at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Her previous books include This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940 and Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question.
  • Contributor: Elna C. Green
  • Imprint: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN13: 9781570036583
  • Number of Pages: 288
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
  • Release Date: 2007-06-30
  • Series: Women's Diaries & Letters of the South
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Elna C. Green is the Allen Morris Professor of History at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Her previous books include This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940 and Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question.

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