Fortune and Misery, Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans: A Biographical Portrait and Selected Fiction, 1891-1920

ISBN13:
9780807122969
ISBN10:
0807122963
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 1999-07-01
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
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Sallie Rhett Roman -- daughter of the South Carolina senator Robert Barnwell Rhett, and daughter-in-law of the Louisiana governor Andre Bienvenu Roman -- little suspected while she was being groomed as a plantation mistress that fate would lead her to become a single mother of ten donning a newspaper career for survival. An accomplished editorialist and fiction writer for the New Orleans Times-Democrat during the two decades surrounding 1900, Roman has been overshadowed through time by her famous male kin. She now emerges into the light of her own deserved recognition in Fortune and Misery, Nancy Dixon's splendid introduction to Roman that combines a full-length biographical portrait, nine of her more significant works of fiction, and a complete bibliography. In her stories, Roman skillfully employed a variety of popular literary genres of the nineteenth century, such as local color, domestic, Gothic, and sentimental fiction. Most notable are the pair of tales "La Misere" and "La Fortune" and the novella "Tonie." Though she was not of the stature of Kate Chopin or Grace King, Roman was read by a larger audience over a longer period of time than many of her more famous contemporaries. Her life and voice offer us today fresh and surprising insights into the culture, politics, and popular literary forms of her time.

Author Biography

Nancy Dixon is on the Department of English faculty at the University of New Orleans.

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction: The Life and Writing of Sallie Rhett Roman

(46)

Selected Fiction of Sallie Rhett Roman

Mrs. Grundy: An Etching

(7)

The Madman's Home

(7)

La Misere: A Midsummer Sketch in New Orleans

(8)

La Fortune

(7)

Kansas

(8)

To See the Carnival

(8)

Alma's Guest

(10)

A Wedding in Spring

102

(8)

Tonie: A Novella

110

(83)

Complete Bibliography of the Works of Sallie Rhett Roman

193

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