https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/southern-historical-fiction But life isn't that simple for Janie, the keeper of an orchard in Elberta, Alabama. Series: the Belle Meade Plantation novels, Book 3 August 2017 With fates bound by a shared tragedy, a reformed gambler from the Colorado Territory and a Southern Belle bent on breaking free from society's expectations must work together to achieve their dreams—provided the truth doesn't tear them apart first. published 1960,avg rating 4.15 — published 2009,avg rating 4.18 — Great Houses of the South. Tobacco was the major cash crop in the Upper South (in the original Chesapeake Bay Colonies of Virginia and Maryland, and in parts of the Carolinas). In it a “strange lady,” the wealthy heiress of a Creole plantation family, summons Claude, the town’s piano tuner, to her mansion.
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL FICTION A Long Way from Home (1999) Connie Briscoe This three generation family saga of African-American life before, during, and after the Civil War, is based on the author's family history, and begins in the household of former president James Monroe at Montpelier, Virginia. Rizzoli has done it again.
Many of the novels that we call plantation romances also bear a different name: we know them and see them discussed as "Anti-Tom novels," written implicitly or explicitly to counter the negative view of the South that Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin(1852) popularized with such amazing force. 6,892 ratings — It's based on the unsolved case of Howorth's stepbrother. 6,028 ratings — He currently serves as President of the Rutherford County Historical Society, Chairman of the Rutherford County Historic Preservation Commission, Chairman of the Rutherford County Library Board of Trustees, and as a board member of the Cliffside Historical Society. published 2010,avg rating 4.17 — The year is 1863 and the entire US is under civil war. published 2011,avg rating 3.86 — published 1914,avg rating 3.22 — 1,388 ratings — published 2002,Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4),The Scarlet Ibis: The Collection of Wonder (Hardcover),The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn (Paperback),Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #1),To Whisper Her Name (Belle Meade Plantation, #1),A Lasting Impression (Belmont Mansion, #1),The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Paperback),Among the Fair Magnolias: Four Southern Love Stories (Paperback),This Side of Glory (Plantation Trilogy, #3),The Red Mist: a tale of civil strife (Hardcover),To Win Her Favor (Belle Meade Plantation, #2),Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter (Hardcover),Best of Lsu Fiction: Collected Poems (Paperback). 4,694 ratings —
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published 1937,avg rating 4.60 — Island Beneath the Sea book.
The authors cover homes you would expect, but they are presented with an emphasis on architectural styles. published 2015,avg rating 4.00 — Here he focuses on the aura of Louisiana's plantation homes — some beautiful, some crumbling from neglect. Included are 120 full-color photographs with information about the construction, history, and condition of each house.Capturing the essence of architecture in a two-dimensional photograph is a difficult — some would say impossible — task. The reader receives a history lesson on some of the finest architecture open for viewing.In this 216-page informative paperback by Sylvia Higginbotham you'll find over one hundred historic homes, gardens, and living villages or historic districts located throughout Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.The architecture of Irish-born Henry Howard (1818–1884) continues to amaze travelers throughout the south, especially in the Garden District of New Orleans. NEXT POST. 2,001 ratings —