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The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South (1st Edition) by Catherine Clinton Paperback, 331 Pages, Published 1984 ISBN-10: 0-394-72253-1 / 0394722531 ISBN-13: 978-0-394-72253-5 / 9780394722535 This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton set |