From June 11, 1890, to April 15, 1891, Nannie Stillwell Jackson wrote about the best and meanest moments of her life on a small farm in southeast Arkansas. The combination of dreariness and charm that forms the diary is absorbing. Jackson’s experience is rich and awful, as is what we may learn from it about the human spirit on the edges of civilization.
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A Woman’s Diary of Life in the Rural South, 1890–1891
Edited with an Introduction by Margeret Bolsterli
978-0-938626-25-1 (paper)
July 1982
Margaret Jones Bolsterli grew up on a cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta during the Great Depression. She is the author of Kaleidoscope: Redrawing an American Family Tree, Things You Need to Hear: Collected Memories of Growing Up in Arkansas, 1890–1980, and Born in the Delta: Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility.
