To Raise Myself a Little: The Diaries and Letters of Jennie, a Georgia Teacher

Author/Contributor(s):	Lines, Amelia Akehurst
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	03/15/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Amelia Akehurst Lines's diaries and letters provide an extraordinarily rich record of the attitudes and values of an "average" American woman of the mid-nineteenth century. Lines was a young New York schoolteacher whose ambition drove her to seek new opportunities in rural Georgia.