Once There Was a Farm: A Country Childhood Remembered Univ PR of Virg Edition Contributor(s): Dabney, Virginia Bell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813918472 ISBN-13: 9780813918471 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $22.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1998 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 98004241 |
Series: Virginia Bookshelf |
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.55" W x 8.55" (0.81 lbs) 273 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Nearly fifty years after she left the family farm of her childhood, Virginia Bell Dabney was compelled to write a memoir. She and her two sisters were raised on a Virginia farm during the hardscrabble years of the 1920s and 1930s. Her determined, independent mother managed to make a life for her famiy, despite hardships such as the Depression and a fire that destroyed their home. Although raised in a spare environment where leaky ceilings and cold winter nights were the norm, Dabney finds much to love, and to rejoice over, in her country upbringing: the wonder of hens laying eggs, the sensations asscoiated with milking a cow, her warm friendship with her mother's black maid. The remarkable clarity of her half-century-old memories and her simple, unaffected tone bring this country childhood unforgettably to life. |