Looking for the New Deal

Florida Women's Letters During the Great Depression

243 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Rife with palpable misery, the hundreds of letters assembled in ""Forgotten Women"" paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, Florida women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters to agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials asking for relief assistance. Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the immediacy and intensity of their plight. The struggles of many of the women, however, reflect the Depression's extraordinarily devastating impact in Florida, where it followed on the heels of massive hurricanes, a medfly epidemic, and a land bust of monumental dimension.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Veröffentlichte Tagebücher, Briefe, Notizbücher
• ISBN: 9781570036583
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2007
• Größe: 233 x 166 mm
• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Herausgegeben von: Elna C Green