A Northern Woman in the Plantation South : Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876 (Women's Diaries & Letters of the Nineteenth-century South)

The wife of a physician, mother of ten children, and mistress of five slaves, Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, fought the isolation of her adopted home by maintaining a lively correspondence with family and friends in Massachusetts. This work provides a candid look at middle-class southern life.