Lyddy: A Tale of the Old South (Brown Thrasher Books) - Softcover

Bacon, Eugenia Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820319678 ISBN 13: 9780820319674

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1998

Synopsis

Lyddy: A Tale of the Old South is a fictional reconstruction of antebellum life in the historic Midway community of Liberty County, Georgia, home of some of the Old South’s wealthiest planters. Originally published in 1898, this blend of fiction and memoir looks through the eyes of a white plantation mistress at her family plantation, her marriage, slave life, and the destruction of the plantation economy that took place when Sherman’s army arrived in December 1864.

Writing in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Eugenia J. Bacon sought to represent plantation life as she had experienced it. Bacon’s story provides a window on slave marriages, the retention of African folklore among coastal Georgia slaves, and the change in relations between masters and slaves after the Civil War.

Lucinda H. MacKethan’s extensive introduction explores the interwoven contexts of race, class, and gender that make this novel an interesting lens through which to view the complex human relationships that constituted plantation society in the Old South.

About this title

About the Author:

EUGENIA JONES BACON (1840-1920) was a native of Liberty County, Georgia.

Review:

Compelling both in terms of the narrative as fiction and of the historical context.

(Thadious M. Davis author of Faulkner's "Negro")

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0820319678
• ISBN 13: 9780820319674
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344