A Southern Woman

by Elena Yates Eulo

Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Allen Crocker battles bigotry, scorn, hatred, and injustice as she tries to live in Tennessee after her husband leaves her to join the Union Army

Genres: Historical Fiction

371 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1993

Reviews

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little romance, a murder trial, Civil War tensions, this book tells the story of Elizabeth Allen, daughter of a genteel Southern farm family whose socially less desirable husband chose to fight for the North, not because he was sympathetic to the Federals, but to be contrary; he was rejected by the Confederate Army. Early on, the South was interested in forming a gentleman's Army and they refused Mr. Allen as they believed him to be 'poor white trash.' His affiliation switch to the Union Army makes the Allen family outcasts in their rural town Frisbin, TN. While Mr is away at war, Elizabeth is treated as the town pariah. When she finds herself starving and rejected by her family she finds a new friend in Ama Hadley, a wealthy Southern woman who rejects slavery.

[Bamboozlepig · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mediocre book about a woman living in the South during the Civil War. She's branded a Yankee because her husband signed up to fight for the North instead of the Confederacy. Her family disowns her and her baby girl and the townspeople turn their noses up at her. A kindly neighbor takes her in and helps her out. There's a murder plot embedded in the novel and the ending was fairly cliched. Pretty bland story, but my opinion is probably biased because my favorite book about the South during the Civil War is "Gone With the Wind".

[Linnja (Lynn) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, here's another book that I liked until the very end!!! WRONG CHOICE!