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Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865

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• Southern States -- Social life and customs

• Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction

• Social Relations in Our Southern States (New York: Henry B. Price, 1860), by Daniel R. Hundley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memorials of a Southern Planter, by Susan Dabney Smedes
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War, by James B. Avirett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The South in the Olden Time, by J. L. M. Curry (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• In Ole Virginia, or, Marse Chan and Other Stories, by Thomas Nelson Page (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Memoirs of a Southern Woman "Within the Lines", and a Genealogical Record, by Mary Jones Polk Branch (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Sweet Old Days in Dixie (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1907), by Eddie McLean (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• Bits of Gossip, by Rebecca Harding Davis (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Beloved South, by Mrs. T. P. O'Connor (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Grandmother's Recollection of Dixie, by Mary Norcott Bryan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life in the Confederate Army... and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life, by Arthur Peronneau Ford and Marion Johnstone Ford (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923, by Edward J. Thomas
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People (Boston: A. G. Brown and Co., 1880), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Old South: A Monograph, by H. M. Hamill (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Rebel's Recollections, by George Cary Eggleston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of My Life, by G. C. Rankin (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Slaveholder's Daughter, by Belle Kearney (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Down South (New York: R. H. Russell, 1900), by Rudolf Eickemeyer, contrib. by Joel Chandler Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Southern Foodways and Culture: Local Considerations and Beyond (selected papers from the 2007 annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society; Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2013), ed. by Lisa J. Lefler (PDF at Tennessee)
• Museums and Memory (selected papers from the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, 2008; Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2011), ed. by Margaret Williamson Huber (PDF files at Tennessee)

• Down Our Way: Stories of Southern and Western Character (Chicago: Way and Williams, c1897), by Mary Jameson Judah (HTML at Indiana)
• The Eyrie and Other Southern Stories (New York: Broadway Publishing, c1905), by Bettie Freshwater Pool (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• An Elephant's Track, and Other Stories, by M. E. M. Davis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Folks From Dixie (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898), by Paul Laurence Dunbar, illust. by E. W. Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880), by Constance Fenimore Woolson (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• The Durket Sperrett (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1898), by Sarah Barnwell Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Grandisimmes: A Story of Creole Life (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880), by George Washington Cable (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Grandissimes (1899 edition), by George Washington Cable, illust. by Albert Herter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Planter's Northern Bride, by Caroline Lee Hentz (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Recollections of a Southern Matron (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1838), by Caroline Howard Gilman (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Recollections of a Southern Matron (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1838), by Caroline Howard Gilman (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Down the River: or, Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello (New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874), by George W. Hooper
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• Elsie's Friends at Woodburn (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1887), by Martha Finley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Southern Folklore Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• Life in the Confederate Army... and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life, by Arthur Peronneau Ford and Marion Johnstone Ford (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Bits of Gossip, by Rebecca Harding Davis (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Recollections Grave and Gay, by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Slaveholder's Daughter, by Belle Kearney (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Southern Woman's War Time Reminiscences (Memphis, TN: Press of the Pilcher Printing Co., 1905), by Elizabeth Lyle Saxon
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust