| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Cynthia A. Kierner. Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700–1835. Ithaca: Cornel University Press. 1998. Pp. xii, 295. Cloth $55.00, paper $18.95.

Historians of southern women have always had to confront the image of the "southern lady" that permeates the field of American history like recalcitrant mildew. No matter how often they assert the existence of real women whose lives were nothing like that of the mythic lady, her shadowy self continues to reappear—despite the repainting provided by countless scholars and their detailed studies of southern women. Cynthia A. Kierner synthesizes much of this recent scholarship to provide a useful and accessible study of real women and their lives in those areas with the largest populations, the most complex societies, many of the oldest settlements, the best-kept historical collections, and the most readily available sources: Virginia and the Carolinas. Her study is not of the early South as a whole, but the extension of her findings into other areas of the region is most likely valid, given that much of what she finds about women's lives beyond the domestic circle can be found in the early North as well. . . .

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