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Scarlet sister Mary
- Title
- Scarlet sister Mary / by Julia Peterkin, author of Black April.
- Author
- Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961
- Publication
- Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1928]
- ©1928
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Details
- Description
- 345 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- Scarlet Sister Mary is the story of a free-spirited woman's life in the post-Emancipation South [Carolina]. It is unique in its portrayal of an African-American community as capable of independent existence in the South at that time. The culture of the community is portrayed most interestingly and permeates through the religious, spiritual and even medical undertones of story. While Peterkin tells a poetic tale of an independent, strong, rebellious woman ... --Bobby Jasak at Amazon.com.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- African American women > South Carolina > Fiction
- African American teenage girls > Fiction
- Communities > Southern States > Fiction
- Gullah women > Fiction
- Plantation workers > South Carolina > Fiction
- Segregation > Southern States > Fiction
- African American women
- Gullah women
- Plantation workers
- Communities
- Segregation
- Race relations
- Social conditions
- African American teenage girls
- South Carolina > History > 20th century > Fiction
- South Carolina > Race relations > 20th century > Fiction
- Southern States > Social conditions > 20th century > Fiction
- South Carolina
- United States
- Southern States
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Authors' autographs (Provenance)
- History.
- Awards (note)
- Pulitzer Prize, 1929
- Call Number
- Sc Fic (Peterkin, J. Scarlet sister Mary)
- LCCN
- 28024477
- OCLC
- 308299
- Author
- Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961, author.
- Title
- Scarlet sister Mary / by Julia Peterkin, author of Black April.
- Publisher
- Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1928]
- Copyright Date
- ©1928
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize, 1929
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Place of Publication
- United States Indiana Indianapolis, publication place.