Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert 1795-1821.
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Plantation life, including the contrast between high society life and a master who has several children with a woman he enslaves; a life contemporaneous with Austen's. Maryland near Washington. With this edited collection of letters, Callcott provides thoroughly researched background in essays at the beginning and end, and context for each chapter. Excellent condition. Index, endnotes. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. 1993. Paper. USED. $12.00
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